My new joy is sitting on our screened in porch for a few hours simply watching the deer, the birds, and if we are lucky a bear might saunter through. And as the sun starts to set, the fireflies light up and the frogs and crickets begin their chorus. It’s pure heaven.
I first saw a Swallow-tailed Kite at the Everglades in 1992. My notebooks from that trip are buried in a climate-controlled storage unit, but it was a week-long excursion, and we visited several locations. Interestingly, we get Swallow-tailed Kites here in Tennessee in the summer. Here is a link to a Tennessee Birder’s published work about them. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3925&context=migrant
Beautiful! Love the pines, too. Interestingly I’m reading a nonfiction book about the whale ship Essex (rammed by angry whale) and there’s some discussion about taro and it’s usefulness in the Pacific and how they could date when humans first arrived on remote islands by the taro fields.
What great story, Misti! Here's to swallow-tailed kites and all the beauty they bring into the world!
Thanks Deece!
How lucky you are to see them so close!
Yes, they are starting to gather here in their large pre-migration flocks. They are a sight to behold.
My new joy is sitting on our screened in porch for a few hours simply watching the deer, the birds, and if we are lucky a bear might saunter through. And as the sun starts to set, the fireflies light up and the frogs and crickets begin their chorus. It’s pure heaven.
You are going to have to text me phots of you new view! Bears coming through sounds exciting and maybe a little be nerve-wracking!
I first saw a Swallow-tailed Kite at the Everglades in 1992. My notebooks from that trip are buried in a climate-controlled storage unit, but it was a week-long excursion, and we visited several locations. Interestingly, we get Swallow-tailed Kites here in Tennessee in the summer. Here is a link to a Tennessee Birder’s published work about them. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3925&context=migrant
Beautiful! Love the pines, too. Interestingly I’m reading a nonfiction book about the whale ship Essex (rammed by angry whale) and there’s some discussion about taro and it’s usefulness in the Pacific and how they could date when humans first arrived on remote islands by the taro fields.