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Brooklyn, NY - kc - Monday, August 29th, 2005 : goo
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Hey, this is going to be one of those periodic eruptions of summernoise! Like for example those beautiful Seals. I've been lucky enough to be out of town, first in Pennsylvania, for a friend's birthday party. While the rest of the crowd went off to the petting zoo, I looked at the butterflies....
and the clouds over the porch...
and the hummingbird...
The next day it was off to Orient, Long Island. Where the weather was glorious. I have no photos of rabbits on lawns, raccoon clans with their eyes glittering in the headlights, or young ospreys practicing landings on their nest platforms...but I did manage to capture this dead bird, which--actually my beloved aging mutt found it on her slow walk along the shore, and it was as if she nosed it and called me, and I came over and discovered it had a band! So I called the number, 1-800-something-BAND, and they've promised me a Certificate of Appreciation (I must capitalize that) and a brief history of the bird, which I'm certain is a tern--Common? Young? In winter plumage? I know not. All I know is it seemed freshly dead, untouched, and looked so beautiful in the towel...I left it in the marsh by a piece of driftwood and it was gone the next day...
Okay, and then there were the swallows. There's an old cartoon, undoubtedly the New Yorker, which portrayed the swallows on a line as musical notes...but I've read those stories about how the skies were once black with migrating birds, and that just doesn't seem to happen any more. But the profusion of swallows! A rhapsody of swallows! I hadn't seen this many since I was a kid, when I would ride up to the Durland farm on my bike and sit with Mrs. Durland on the porch in the evening and watch the swallows swirling in the fading light and practice spelling "Schenectady." And so it goes...
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jeeff: hey, i really enjoyed this.
Peter: 29th Aug 2005 - 16:41 GMT
i like this. great entry, kc. thansk a million. the power-line strings of birds are great!
kc: kind of a city unto themselves. & thanks!
GGP: 29th Aug 2005 - 17:16 GMT
kc! you have outdone yourself. the tern in the towel is stunning, and how wonderful to see these amazing swallows. they have completely disappeared from upstate NY, where they were much enjoyed nesting in boxes intended for the bluebirds, all through June and July--feels empty without them, and it was with that sad end-of-summer feeling that I cleaned out the boxes the other day. But what a thrill to see them all united as they head back south. just great--great shots.
Jamie: 29th Aug 2005 - 17:48 GMT
classic citynoise. i really enjoyed reading this. i did so firstly on my web-enabled mobile minus pictures and enjoyed it. Now i read it again with visual context i am even more impressed. I just love this sort of stuff.
drea: 5th Apr 2006 - 18:34 GMT
Wow...I luv this!!! I enjoyed each picture, especialy the one with the butterflies, great shots!
kc: 5th Apr 2006 - 20:33 GMT
Thanks, and thanks for reminding me of this post. I just got my Certificate of Appreciation for calling in that bird last week. A very sad document, somehow. Indeed a common tern, banded on July 5, 2005, at a time when it was still "too young to fly." That was near Mattapoisett, Mass. By August 22, 2005, it was dead in Orient, Long Island.
GGP: 5th Apr 2006 - 21:07 GMT
these birds go through so much to survive; it's amazing they make it at all, esp. these days.
on a chirpier note, I have reason to believe a mourning dove is nesting on the sill beneath my air conditioner. the cooing gets amplified in a really funny, wonderful way through the A/C vent.
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