Bird safari
I got up late of course – given the robbing of one hour of my sleep. I won’t get grumpy about it because it does mean that the daylight hours are longer and for that I’m forever grateful. Time goes by fast enough without having days that are dark late and early. Still I wasn’t in the mood for Monday because I’d overslept and so I went to walk the dogs with a twinge of trepidation but on arriving at City Park’s entrance, I saw the results of the severe thunderstorm that came through in the early morning (the thunder had me jumping out of my bed resulting in me getting up way too early and going back to resleep and therefore oversleeping).
The Park was disheveled.
So I decided that instead of doing my routine dog walk and it being Monday morning, instead I was on a bird safari and had all the time in the world to discover birds. A Hooded Merganser was spotted in the bayou a few days ago by my neighbor (a biologist) and I wanted to see one. Geese came sailing by honking to all get out and I looked up wondering what all the ruckus was about and all I saw were wood ducks shimming their tails into the lagoon.
Then there were turtles, a bonus on the safari, and cormorants were up in the naked tree trying to air out their soggy wings. A brown pelican and an American white one were up in the front of the park also grooming the storm out of their feathers.
But no Hooded Merganser. No matter, I had fun on my safari and was able to come back to the house ready for a day of work and a few deadlines looming. When I returned I stopped for my morning meditation by the window with my Yemaya statue and candle, outside the window two blue jays were cawing at one another in a deliberate fashion while working a few tiny limbs off the crepe myrtle tree – nesting, spring, procreation.