Ash Throated Flycatcher — Image by kenne
On my morning walks
Birds can be seen everywhere
Look, you too will see.
— kenne
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Ash Throated Flycatcher 2 comments
On my morning walks
Two Abert’s Towhees In A Desert Willow 1 comment
Two Abert’s Towhees In A Desert Willow — Image by kenne
Abert’s towhee, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, is nearly endemic to Arizona but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897). — Wikipedia
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Lesser Goldfinch On Hot Day 2 comments
Lesser Goldfinch At Patio Water Fountain On A Hot Summer Day — Image by kenne
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
— E. B. White
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Love Birds 5 comments
Love Birds (Two Ravens On An Olive Tree Limb) — Image by kenne
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
— from Bird On A Wire by Leonard Cohen
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Pelican Harvest 2 comments
Brown Pelican Harvest — Image by kenne
“What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?”
— William Congreve
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Pyrrhuloxia In Mesquite Tree Leave a comment
Male Pyrrhuloxia In Mesquite Tree — Image by kenne
How did the Pyrrhuloxia end up with such a scary looking name? And what does Pyrrhuloxia mean?
It’s all Greek to me. No, really, it is Greek. The Pyrrhuloxia’s name comes from two Greek words:
The first one means “flame,” which has to do with the male’s red breast; the second means “crooked,”
referring to its large beak. Found in the desert southwest, Pyrrhuloxias typically like drier habitats than cardinals do.
Because of its preference for dry habitat some folks, who can’t figure out how to say Pyrrhuloxia, simply refer to it as the
“desert cardinal.”
— Source: Bird Watcher General Store
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House Finch In Our Olive Tree 1 comment
House Finch In Our Olive Tree — Image by kenne
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.”
— Maya Angelou.
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Female Adult Hermit Warbler 1 comment
Female Adult Hermit Warbler — Image by kenne
“A small songbird with classic warbler proportions,
including a moderately long tail and a rather short, slender, straight bill.’
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Male Northern Cardinal Leave a comment
Male Northern Cardinal in Our Patio Olive Tree — Image by kenne
The life that I could still live,
I should live, and the thoughts
that I could still think,
I should think.
— C.G. Jung
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Pyrrhuloxia At Our Patio Feeder 3 comments
Male Pyrrhuloxia At Our Patio Feeder — Image by kenne
A beautiful desert bird a close relative of the cardinal, which the less observant person
may mistake for a female cardinal, is the pyrrhuloxia (pir-ah-LOX-see-ah).
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Say’s Phoebe 2 comments
Say’s Phoebe In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
“Little Bird, little bird, fly around,
Up to the sky, down to the ground.
Little bird, little bird, flap your wings,
Open your beak and sweetly sing.
Little bird, little bird, fly to your nest.
Now it is time to take a rest.”
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Bluebird Painting 5 comments
Bluebird Painting by kenne
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
— from Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
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It’s Breakfast Time In The Desert 4 comments
White-winged Dove Eating Saguaro Fruit — Image by kenne
Nobody is around.
The desert is quiet,
so tell me, what’s
on your mind?
Use the words
to begin a poem.
— kenne
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What’s The Word? Leave a comment
Curve-billed Thrasher — Image by kenne
For a while I could not remember some word
I was in need of,
and I was bereaved and said: where are you,
beloved friend?
— Mary Oliver
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Gila Woodpecker at Patio Feeder Leave a comment
Gila Woodpecker at Patio Feeder — Image by kenne
These birds are noisy
Seen bullying other birds
On the patio.
— kenne
