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By Cornelia Powell | December 24, 2008
I’ve just had the most wonderful Christmas Eve visitors to my little mountain top! A flock of Eastern Blue Birds just lit outside my office loft windows (looking west into a “blue” silhouetted mountain ridge). This is only the third batch of “songbirds” that have called on me in the month or so of being here — crows, however, love to come a’calling!
Just yesterday, I filled the two bird feeders that a friend put up for me last week — the same two feeders I had “in the valley” where I stayed before moving up to my cabin on Cullowhee Mountain. I just wasn’t sure that song birds could find me…but I was going to be ready!
I have windows on three sides of my loft where I can see out from my desk. So they lit outside the windows in front of me; the feeders are outside the windows to my left, slightly up the ridge at the back of the cabin. So in this position, I could “track” their activity as I attempted to coax them to the feeders (letting them know that they’re faster than the black bears on the other side of the ridge!). They sent a “scout” to each feeder, getting within four or five feet, but not onto the feeder. Then they were gone — in a song!! (teehee. I couldn’t resist!)
I think they were saying, “Thanks for putting out the snacks, Nelia, but we’d already fueled up. We’ll see you when we come back through now we know you’re here!”
love, Cornelia
ps: oh, and don’t you love this serendipity! At the time of the “sighting,” I was working on a project for a product that uses the old bridal rhyme, “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” — and I was editing the BLUE part — researching where the term “true blue” comes from!! Life is a miracle.
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