A flock of Lesser Goldfinch just flew into the tree outside the large library window. There’s another flock in the tree ten feet beyond it. The birds look like leaves bouncing in a breeze and won’t be still for a moment. Whoops. Now they are still like the leaves when the air is still. Or have they flown away? A third flock zips in to join them and they are lively again. There must be at least thirty. Did they…..
It has been raining for hours. The vernal pool has more water and has attracted a Great Blue Heron, as well as several Gadwells and American Wigeons. Two small flocks of Canada Geese just flew off, each with their usual commotion as they took their place in their formation and began circling the pool before the leader led them where he (?) wanted to go (I suppose). Or was all the cacophony a discussion of where they were to go?…..