Unsweetened Sugarbush

mother's arms open maple-keys unlocking shoots~ not a single bird ***

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Paul Callus

Date: 5/8/2020 12:05:00 PM

When birds disappear it means that there is something wrong with the environment! Hope that a change of weather will tempt them to come back. ~ Regards // paul

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/8/2020 4:25:00 PM

Very true. I have been birding for 20 years now, the decline has been dramatic. Today however I saw hundreds of swallows feeding over the river, it's been years, so I am beaming, and hopeful. Warm poetry hugs! xomo

Robert Kinard

Date: 5/8/2020 6:32:00 AM

Our backyard is animal entertainment we have blue birds, blue Jays, Robins, Cardinals, The Hawks can't get anything for the ravens always harassing them. And we watch the vultures do there thing too. with the deer and rabbits you could sit and watch and the only thing missing is a Narater.

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/8/2020 8:58:00 AM

Sounds glorious! A virtual Sir David Attenborough would rock ;), xomo!

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 5/7/2020 5:24:00 PM

Poor birdless branches - maybe they're staying inside for quarantine too...

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/7/2020 6:31:00 PM

I wish ;), pesticides, pollution, destruction of habitat, window collisions, cats...

John Lawless

Date: 5/7/2020 3:19:00 PM

Hey, we've got robins, blue jays, cardinals and a flock of sparrows in the back yard....go figure

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/7/2020 3:36:00 PM

I have all those in and around my yard too; the year round city residents, it's all the migratories that are missing, the woods were freakishly quiet.

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/7/2020 1:18:00 PM

Not true as "a little bird" always lets mothers know what is going on . . . . . Aloha! Rico

Rico Leffanta
Date: 5/9/2020 1:55:00 PM

In Hawai'i, most of the endemic birds are extinct because people insist upon feeding the pigeons and doves which spend their day multiplying and replenishing the earth with more pigeons and doves quickly crowding out other species. Government will take no action because politicians like votes, and people like feeding pigeons and doves. Be happy you don't live where pigeons, doves, seagulls, etc., are dive-bombing poop in your hair! Aloha! Rico

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/7/2020 2:01:00 PM

~thank you my friend. I am an optimist by nature. I have been birding for 20 years now. I know what I am missing. <3

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 5/7/2020 1:37:00 PM

I went for a walk in the sugarbush today; mused that the giant stump was the mother, admiring all the tender baby trees. Rico, not a single bird in the woods. Not even a resident woodpecker. Nothing. I ache.