Date: 11/13/24 2:51 am From: Sue Wetmore <000006207b3956ac-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Where have all the postings gone?
I post nearly daily.
Sue Wetmore
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> On Nov 13, 2024, at 5:49 AM, J J Allen <jjapple88...> wrote:
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> Hey everyone,
> Are most of you posting bird sightings on eBird or iNaturalist or ???
> Just wondering about the gradual decline over the years to this list serve.
> Thank you,
> Jeffrey Allen
>
>> On Nov 13, 2024, at 00:00, VTBIRD automatic digest system <LISTSERV...> wrote:
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>> There is 1 message totaling 43 lines in this issue.
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>> Topics of the day:
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>> 1. 12 November 2024: Hurricane Hill (1,100 feet), WRJ
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>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:51:07 -0500
>> From: Ted Levin <tedlevin1966...>
>> Subject: 12 November 2024: Hurricane Hill (1,100 feet), WRJ
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>> 6:19 a.m. (twenty-one minutes before sunrise). Forty degrees, wind
>> Northwest 15 miles per hour, gusting to 35. Wild dawn. Inexorably windy.
>> Sky cloaked in gray, steadily moving, thick and textured—then, a crack in
>> the mantle: four lines of pink above the southeast corner of Hurricane
>> Hill. Color spreads and intensifies, kindling the heavens. Hurricane Hill,
>> capped in orange, intensely bright, spreads northeast above the mouth of
>> the White River over the ridgeline and south beyond my sightline—a jubilee
>> of color that lasts minutes ... ah, but what gorgeous minutes they are.
>> Trees are in perpetual motion, rubbing and creaking and stirring. The
>> seedheads of goldenrod become weather vanes. The last leaves loosen and
>> launch. Five species of birds: barred owl, American crow, blue jay,
>> black-capped chickadee, and tufted titmouse.
>>
>> A blue jay imitating a red-tailed hawk—sharp voice piercing the wind—fools
>> me. A black bird in an angry sky, a crow heads northwest at a snail's pace,
>> wind-buffeted, up and down, above a landscape in turmoil. Another crow.
>> Another joy ride.
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>> Below the brooding hemlocks, a barred owl on an oak limb above the edge of
>> the road, searching. Fourteen cervical vertebrae rotate softball-size head.
>> The owl looks behind her. Looks in front. Head almost spinning.
>> Shortchanged, I have only seven. To look behind me, I rotate my hips. Owl
>> rotates her head. Dark eyes scanning. Asymmetrical ears filter out
>> background noise—discriminating between footfalls and restless branches.
>> Then, the owl slips into the dead air of the hemlocks—a silent departure
>> like the coming and going of daydreams.
>>
>> Sunrise doesn't get any better than this.
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>> End of VTBIRD Digest - 10 Nov 2024 to 12 Nov 2024 (#2024-107)
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