Winter Prowess

Professor Pronghorn
Profile in bare cherry tree
Protecting the yard

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Spivey Hall Concert

Campus winterers
Caring nothing of music
Canada goose pair

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Migration Stop-Off

Ten blackbirds waiting
in cherry tree for their turn
at feeding station

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Too skittish for close-up photo
Sometimes a dozen or more on feeders

Churtle-urrr-Churr-Churr

Soothing tones and smooth
Love song of a gentleman
Murmur of bluebird

With one song he woos
his mate, protects their nest,
hums a lullaby

Even coaxes their
young, when time comes, to fly the
proverbial coop

And once they've all fledged
He goes silent for winter
Till spring warmth's return

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Chipmunk Interrupted

Low zoom through the yard
Kerfuffle in the ivy
Red-tailed hawk breakfast

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Usher of Nests

After slow decline
We've expected the Fall of
the House of Bluebird

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Grand Arc Aria

Sang a purple sky
Good morning, walkers!  May this
day bring you music

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Photo credit: Peggy Spencer

Reward For Searching Soundward

Came a haunting call
Pileated woodpecker
Feeding on dead limb

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Her Own Brand of Joie de Vivre

Icelandic sample
Just five months before her death
Puffin on her head

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Photo credit: Bryan Payne

Soloist and Choristers

Murmur of bluebird
Chatter of black. Seems too
early, this spring song.

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