The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, fish, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located.
Seattle. February 27, 2013.
I forget the spring songs from year to year; find myself standing still, head cocked and slack jawed when I hear them for the first time each spring. Who is that? Where have I heard this before?
And with each one there is an exquisite moment of recognition - the voice of an old friend from an earlier February, when I was much younger and just beginning to sort out all of the spring voices:
Brown Creeper:
Look up and see me!! Look up and see me!!!
Hutton's Vireo:
tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet.. tweet..
though softly today, as if February might yet be too early for normal outside voices. I will want to throw something at them in April.
And the extended harmonic trills of two Varied Thrushes, repeated, back and forth across the salmonberry bog.
February 27, 2013: One Brown Creeper, one Hutton's Vireo and two Varied Thrushes were singing their spring songs in the Forest.
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Who's talking about Spring in your natural neighborhood? What else have you seen or heard? What's growing or flying or swimming or? Everyone is welcome to toss their observations into the bucket. Welcome.
I'll be busy most of today, but you all know what to do.