Delightful account! Thank you.

On Jul 10, 2017 8:49 PM, "Eve Ticknor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I agree with this!  something to hold in our mind’s eye all during the
> snowy winter months……..  Such a way of writing!
> > On Jul 10, 2017, at 8:24 PM, Mundi Smithers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > What a marvelous canvas you have painted. I will hold it in my mind's
> eye for some time time to come.  Thanks!
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jul 10, 2017, at 8:20 PM, Alison Wagner <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Birders, Who Will Understand this Simple Joy....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have heard people say that birding in July is “slow,” or “quiet,” and
> not really worthy of a birders’ attention.  But this morning, Clem Nilan,
> Michele Patenaude and I spent a good chunk of time at Lagoon Road and it
> did us justice.  True, no “new birds” for the year, unless of course you
> would consider the hatchlings, and…oh...my...did they capture us!  Grand
> Prize for cutest shorebird of the day (and perhaps dethroning the Killdeer
> chick from this status) goes to three, fresh-out-of-the-eggs, Spotted
> Sandpiper chicks.  Total poof balls with bold black mascara-eyelines and a
> racing stripe from the top of heads, down the length of their backbones,
> these cuties resembled a cross between their parents and miniature
> burros.  Tiny feather-duster tails bobbed while they foraged independently
> through the forests of grass and when they disappeared, we’d wait patiently
> for them to return.   We were not disappointed as they resurfaced again and
> again, always somewhere new and unexpected:  ascending the mountains of
> mulch, scritching in the mud for a tiny morsel of food only they could see,
> weaving along the edge of the flooded field, stopping beside a giant Snipe,
> freezing in a pose like a Pointer (only they were the predator) and then
> striking with speed and accuracy I’d expect from an experienced hunter…
> Always on the move, coming and  going, living by instinct, new born babies…
> when we finally turned our attention away an hour later, I swear  they
> looked bigger.
>
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