They're
first to see the sun.
They must
tell ev'ryone.
In the leafy
treetops, the birds sing "Good morning."
Nearly every morning
when I'm in the guest room
attempting my own yoga practice
(appropriate from someone approaching 80),
while I'm doing "tree pose"
I focus on a bird in the tiptop of the Blue Spruce
across the street.
I don't see him there any other time of the day.
Is it the same bird every morning?
Why does he perch on the top fragile branch?
Why doesn't he nestle down where it's safer and warmer?
Why doesn't he go south for the winter?
And for my brother, DeLoy,
the forester,
what is he called?
Hopefully soon,
I'll have pictures of flowers nodding.
In my pretty
garden, the flowers are nodding.
"How do
you do?" they say.
"How do
you do today?"
In my pretty
garden, the flowers are nodding.
*Taken with a telephoto lens from my upstairs window.
DeLoy's friend, Karen, thinks it is a Western Scrub-jay.
"He's up where he can feel the sun warming him up."
2 comments:
hj, When we used to go on California Condor watches they had a form for recording Condors seen as well as Condor-like birds of all species. Near the bottom of the form was a catch-all lumped category called LDUB (Large, Dark, Unidentified Birds). Yours is a SDUB (Small, Dark, Unidentified Bird) However, the tree is a spruce, likely a blue spruce. ld
P.S. I've sent your pictures to the local Santa Barbara News-Press Bird expert, Karen Bridgers, who writes a weekly bird article. She happens to currently live in the Provo area. She was a member of our ward.
DeLoy writes again: hj, Here's Karen's suggestion: Western Scrub-jay. We have them here on our patio occasionally. They are a fairly large bird compared to a sparrow. More like a robin in size. They are mostly white and gray, not blue, but they do have blue on them. Do you have a bird book. If not I will send you a picture. ld
Hi DeLoy
Hope this finds you well. She didn’t say if it was blue or not, but I’d say Western Scrub-jay. He’s up where he can feel the sun warming him up!
Best, Karen
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