The Birds
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Opposite the stained glass panel and beneath the dining room windows, two bushes full with dead leaves serve as an eary morning gathering place for 50 or so finches. Every morning, they come here to this small garden area against the house swooping and reseting themselves every few minutes in random sky-cluttering flutters before temporarily settling back on the bare branches. The main attraction for them is a birdfeeder that hangs on a sapling branch from a rope that has see-sawed the light bark away in a perfect strip. (more…)
