[birding] a welcome visit

[howard bruner]

Word must have gotten back to the ruby-crown community about my misgivings concerning their status because there was just

 one directly outside my office window.  It was methodically gleaning under a low ledge that skirts the building.  It would land on

 the vertical wall of rough textured cinderblock and work as much of the underside of the ledge as it could reach then fly to the

 next stretch.  I am glad they so kindly set my mind at ease.  And my visitor found one raisin-sized spider to keep the heat on for

 another hour at least.

 

Bird activity overall is somewhat frantic.  I have never seen the scrub jays mine the tree wells (where the trunk divides into

 multiple branches) before but they have been throwing leaves fast and furious from these catchments and seem to be finding

 rewards.  Robins and starlings are sailing all around in big flocks suddenly and the geese are moving around now as well.  I think

 the general strategy might  be to stay hunkered until the warmest portion of the day - then get out there and flog all

 possibilities seeking enough food to balance the deadly equation of thermal regulation and severe cold.

 

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