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The numbers I get wax and wane. Some years I have a half dozen or more, this year only one pair. They do totally earn their keep in winter. Is there anything prettier than a cardinal in a snow-covered shrub? I don't think so. Jane (Shoreham) On 12/21/2013 6:13 PM, Lynette D. Reep wrote: > Two chasing each other outside my home in Burlington this afternoon. > Lynette > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Sender: Vermont Birds <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:38:20 > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Vermont Birds <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Red Bird > > We have had no Cardinals this winter Usually many pairs. > Marylyn Pillsbury > So Hero > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Brennan Michaels and John Beattie" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [VTBIRD] Red Bird > Date: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 5:12 pm > > > so wonderful, we have a cardinal couple at the feeder, so fortunate. > thanks for the poem > On Dec 21, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Patti Haynes wrote: > >> Happy Solstice birders! >> >> The following is a poem written by Mary Oliver that I felt fit the occasion: >> >> >> RED BIRD >> >> Red bird came all winter >> firing up the landscape >> as nothing else could. >> >> Of course I love the sparrows, >> those dun colored darlings, >> so hungry and so many. >> >> I am a God-fearing feeder of birds. >> I know He has many children, >> not all of them bold in spirit. >> >> Still,for whatever reason---- >> perhaps because the winter is so long >> and the sky is so black-blue, >> >> or perhaps because the heart narrows >> as often as it opens--- >> I am grateful >> >> that red bird comes all winter >> firing up the landscape >> as nothing else can do. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6939 - Release Date: 12/21/13 >