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Harker's JournalMy Funny Valentine - Bill Evans
My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
Birds I especially miss after having relocated.
My wife and I moved east from Colorado a few years ago, and we've settled in upstate NY after a couple years in western PA.
We're tremendously pleased here, and getting to know the birds that visit our rural property.
I hope I never take the presence of any species for granted again, as I get wistful, a little teary eyed even, missing some that I used to see every day... especially magpies, mountain chickadees, and pygmy nuthatches (two individuals in particular who became dear friends.)
If I thought harder, I'd miss more. Steller's jays, Western meadowlarks, dammit.
Love the ones you're with.
I saw a wild turkey kill a chickadee today.
I noticed a turkey running around our yard with something flapping around in its beak, closely pursued by the rest of the rafter. It was windy, and I thought maybe it had picked up a stray piece of plastic or something.
I took a look with the binoculars, and was surprised to see it was a struggling chickadee.
It lay motionless on the snow when thrown aside.
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Name: TerryGender: Do not display
Hometown: Hinsdale, IL
Home country: The United (not Disunited) States of America.
Current location: Upstate NY
Member since: Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:23 PM
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