Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Nature Diary #10

10.17.2011

Wait, It's a Squirrel?


    Yesterday I was trying to take a few pictures of a pair of cardinals that were perched in my back yard.  Then I started hearing a bird that was chirping loudly.  The same call kept responding.  I looked over to the source of the latter call and saw a big grey bird in a tree.

   When I came closer to the gray bird, I saw that it was a squirrel!

   And to my disbelief, it was imitating the other bird and making odd sounds using the back of its throat - or so that is what I believe.  He looked quite silly there, shaking slightly every time he made the noise, his fluffy tail shuddering.

   I wonder, is it really normal for squirrels to do that?

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Messenger



If I were a messenger,
And you were too,
Where to go, where to play?
Where to conceal our words?

We'll find her wistful birds,
That prune their deep blue feathers
And bask in the chilling mountain wind
And spread our messages...

And if we're successful,
It will spread like a vigilant
Yet silent wildfire,
And war shall wring no more...