Day 9
February 23, 2008
10:25 a.m. Temps in the high 20s… my favorite! As I walk to my Sit Spot, bushwhacking along my own path, I notice plenty of evidence of rodents… their trails alternating between The Surface and Subnivea. When I get to the real path I find an ATV has driven here since my last visit.
When I reach my Sit Spot and the sounds of my snow clothes and boots on crunchy snow cease, I notice that Titmouse is not at all tentative about his “Peter-Peter” territory songs today. Chickadees have resumed their “Phoebe” territory songs, too. Both birds also offer to teach me some other songs and calls in their repetoires. Red-bellied Woodpecker offers his song. Crows are caw-cawing loudly about something or other and I wonder if I’ll see an owl that they are pestering. Another bird that I cannot see teases me with a variety of songs and calls. One sounds like a bird-bark. I wonder who THAT is?
My eye is drawn to patterns and textures created by the dry remains of last year’s plants.
I’m in no hurry today. I take the long road home.
I have learned that if I walk miles and miles . . . I can go without seeing any birds! But if I sit in one spot . . . the birds come to me! Great day for sure Jen!
I have been sketching dead things like crazy these past weeks, everywhere I look is a dead thing more beautiful that the last… and I just LOVE that last image, I am going to draw it too, add it to my mortuary collection… thanks for bring peace and beauty into my day.