Date: 11/13/24 3:40 am From: Eugenia Cooke <euge24241...> Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Where have all the postings gone?
I've noticed the decline in posts on this listserv as well.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 5:51 AM Sue Wetmore <
<000006207b3956ac-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> I post nearly daily.
> Sue Wetmore
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> > On Nov 13, 2024, at 5:49 AM, J J Allen <jjapple88...> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >> There is 1 message totaling 43 lines in this issue.
> >>
> >> Topics of the day:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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