Snowy Days

Female Red-bellied Woodpecker in the snow

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. 

 - Edith Wharton

To me....the BEST thing about snow - is trying to photograph the birds in it!

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Similar but Different

Both of these are birds (of course), both are females and both are woodpeckers.   The one of the left is a Downy Woodpecker and on the right is a Red-bellied Woodpecker - 

and they both LOVE the Suet on Snowy days!

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. 

~ M. Scott Peck

 

Hanging Out With Friends

Carolina Wren and Female Red-bellied Woodpecker 

share the feeder

A friend accepts us as we are 

yet helps us to be what we should. 

 ~ Unknown

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The Throb Of Amazement

Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

 — Mary Oliver 

 Female Red-bellied Woodpecker takes flight 

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker - Female

Build a House for men and birds. 

Sit with them and play music. 

For a day, for just one day, 

talk about that which disturbs no one 

and bring some peace, my friend, 

into your beautiful eyes.

 ~ Hafiz

Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker

At Home In the Forest

Red-bellied Woodpecker in the Forest along Deerfield Trail

Blacksburg, Virginia       

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, 

and I smile, and am silent, 

and even my soul remains quiet: 

it lives in the other world which no one owns. 

The peach trees blossom, The water flows. 

 ~ Li Po

Preparing for the Future

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

-Harriet Martineau

It was amazing to watch this female Red-bellied Woodpecker excavating a nest cavity. At some points she would be completely inside the hole with just a bit of her tail sticking out. She worked very hard at it!

Remind Yourself....

White Breasted Nuthatch

Tufted Titmouse -  such SWEET birds 

Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.   

- Ralph Marston

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