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| Patch #57: indigo-dyed linen from a vintage table cloth |
know what to listen for ...
then shield your eyes as you look into the sun and blindly point the camera at the sky ...
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because, yes ... the sandhill cranes are headed north again.
Thursday Thoughts...
9 hours ago
this might be my favorite ever...and yes. They are Gathering here. Practicing
ReplyDeleteflight maneuvers, strengthening their wings, their sense of one another. Such beauty in this to me, such Love of How It Is on this Planet....
Thank You for this Knowing and for this patch.
Don and I were walking the property and I said, "I wonder when we'll see the sandhills?" ... not five minutes later Don said, "I hear them." Made me realize how much the rhythms of this place have become a part of who I am.
DeleteLiz, this is amazing, how you have put this flock motion into stationary. I am always overwhelmed, spellbound and fascinated, hearing and seeing a flock flying over.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!
Thanks much ... I'll be looking up this afternoon (the flocks often pause for a few minutes to kettle in the updrafts over the floodplain, giving them a breather before continuing on)
DeleteHere's a link to more about kettling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_%28birds%29
DeleteInteresting! Never knew this. Did you see them kettle?
DeleteNot this time, but we have seen the sandhill cranes do this in the past. We also see Hawks and buzzards using the thermals all year round ... the difference is in how many more cranes there are in the migrating flocks.
DeleteI thought the fossil patch was brilliant and now this...the fluid movement of air and wing contrasts vividly with the age-long calcification of the pre-historic snail, yet both are singing of the energy of the earth.
ReplyDeleteThe world gives us so much to see, if only we take the time to look.
Deletei like this
ReplyDeleteThanks ... me, too
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