We had them eating out of our hands: Nov. 3, 2022

As soon as we entered Ashbridge’s Park this morning, we were besieged by about half a dozen chickadees and two red-breasted nuthatches. I brought along a little sack of peanuts and shelled sunflower seeds for the occasion.

Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee

Other birds:

Red-breasted Merganser
Gadwall (male)
Mute Swan (juvenile)
Mute Swans
Ring-billed Gull
Wood Duck
Wood Duck
Mallard (female)
Red-breasted Mergansers
hybrid “bib” duck
Red-breasted Mergansers

Park scenes:

Spider web

Some botany:

White Oak (Quercus alba)
Evening Primrose (Oenothera)
Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
London Plane-tree
Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
Red Ash (Fraxinus pensylvanica)
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)

Today’s group:

MAILBOX

Miles note: I got several e-mails about my misidentification of the originators of the “mockingbird” song.

Hi Miles,

Carly Simon & James Taylor do a fine job, but no one does it like the originals: 😊

NATURE POETRY

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky—
No higher than the soul is high.                  – Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

Miles Hearn

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