The many moods

 

 

 

…of morning light.

 

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

 

 

You can’t see me.

 

Right?

 

Collared doves

 

 

 

Assessing the yard.

 

Sand patterns

 

 

A buffer behind the dunes, built up at great effort with tractors and loaders; dunes which are then elaborately sculpted by the erosion of wind and rain.

 

 

 

 

I saw a statistic

 

 

It said:

 

“Men are twice as likely as women to have a hearing problem,

but only half as likely to admit it.”

 

What?

 

Okay

 

 

It’s gnarly trees again.

 

 

 

We looked at blackbirds

 

 

First, we found a place with plenty of them.  The grain silos around Progresso are a good place to start.

 

 

A lot of them were red-winged blackbirds.

 

 

There were brown-headed cowbirds.

 

Bronzed cowbirds.

 

And our target for the day, the yellow-headed blackbird, in the center of this frame, to the right of the pole.

 

He was being reclusive.