Middle Season #15 - 2026

 

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MS 15

1. Spring chorus 4:59 wakes me up
2. 5:29 2 HBs at once. First one threatened by second who perches for a bit before sipping
3. HB feeder constant like a McDonald’s drive through
4. HB sitting while slurping. Too tired to fly. Just drink
5. 4:06 stringing Cardinal, then sparrow and HB at once. 
6. A single feather is out of place on HV’s sleek coat while perching a bit by feeder for a moment
7. Crane flying over the 600 students in red in silhouette 
8. Several released balloons into the increasingly biting wind. 

Ingvar Kamprad, entrepreneur and founder of IKEA, on making mistakes:

“Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.”

Source: The Testament of a Furniture Dealer (1976).

Friday May 22

1. At McDonald’s Lillie’s are blooming
2. Along 294 there are areas of grasses in the field and the grasses have flown and there’s a purple Hayes near the seats
3. Several black birds with bluish head feathers
4. Red breasted, gross beak wobbling Vero eastern warbling Vero
5. Eastern phoebe. All of these on the island. 
6. The sound of the breeze in the cottonwood trees reminds me of water flowing
7. Great crested fly catcher. 
8. Geese in water with line of fuzzy babies. Not small. Football sized babies. 
9. Aerobatic Bird with white chest tan top blue on the shoulders flying back-and-forth along the rapid area on salt Creek
10. The salt Creek is at least 4 feet down based on where it overflows into the Bluff area flood plane
11. Baltimore Oreo, northern house Ren by shelter number seven
12. Two birds in camouflage with big lenses
13. Big bird being chased by two smaller birds followed by a couple minutes of Strnad Jay’s screaming
14. By the little creek pretty yellow iris. 3 main petals
15. The small two leaf of ephemeral is now turning yellow and brown in the forest floor
16. Snowy egret off hunting in middle of salt creek
17. Old man with two disabled middle-aged sons in bathroom with one of them sent the other one back to the car. He’s looking very old in the spring.
18. One flowered broomrape aka ghostpipe.  A parasitic forest plant. 

Sat may 23

1. 4:15. The half moon. Over the roofline. 45* up?
2. Tied up massively blooming wild blue indigo
3. Dogwood still blooming
4. Around town it’s lots of irises. 
5. Most of the radishes didn’t get fat in my garden box. And spinach is already bolting without getting large. 

Wednesday may 27

1. These tiny red leafed shrubs unloved and scraggly. Look handsome in this low 7:14 sunlight. The tops lit up. 
2. 7:26 starling bath time. 

Friday

1. Smell of new cedar fence. 
2. Pretty tiny Lillie’s in neighborhood 
3. Japanese lilac in Gilbert part filled with flowers
4. Lighter yellow maple. On Clausen. Making pretty leaf sounds. 
5. Chipmunk bucket
6. Blooming Wild ginger. 
7. In AM chipmunks won’t shut the ficknup. Alarms drill into head 
8. Birdsong ringing my headache. I close the windows. 

Saturday May 30

1. One of starlings sounds is like a car alarm. Another is Sonora like rhythmic single note. Another cycle — like turning over a drum filled with bingo cards. Another first two notes of a cat call. One is like that kids toy you blow in that must have a spinner inside. It revs up then down. Another is the sound of a rasp going over rough surface. 
2. Blue Jay calls 3x.  Pause. Returning call from South 1x. 
3. Robins at the beginning ripening service berry
4. Very red house finch pulls strands from Coconut hanging basket liner
5. HB has puffy ball on beak… struggles to get it off bc his sword is so long. Can’t drink bc of it. 
6. Brown edged dogwood petals strewn on front lawn
7. A lawn in DG that is almost completely filled with basswood/linden tree petals

Sunday May 31

1. One oak leaf hydrangea blossom is almost ready to open