Day 8

January 8, 2021

In search of big birds

Ate Reubens with EJ at Highland today.  A perfect day for the perfect food made by Eli Jacobs, our favorite Reuben maker.  We listened to music that EJ had on Spotify, I really enjoyed Marina.  

Then we went for the ride in search of big birds.  Lunchtime is not a good time to search for those big ones, it's a good time to photograph shadows and clouds, but those big birds tend to be somewhere hidden.

Usually there is a hawk in the orchard.  Not today, nor were there ducks in the wetlands by the Deerfield River.  

And the rookery was still, frozen over with shadows falling down upon it, but no bird overhead.

And where I usually see the horses in the fields, only a single cat sat.  She was cute, and some small birds near, but nothing overhead.

By two we were home.  I got out of the car and I could hear the voices so common in my yard, but I could not see them and then I saw this, the red tailed, sitting in its glory above me, in my own yard.  Of course, why travel to find what you can see in your own back yard?   

In the maple there was a Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker.  He was tapping into maple veins sucking up sap across the maples and I think trying to stay under the hawk radar.  

Soaked in cold blue sky

Sap Sucker flits about

Focuses us on what's essential