\nBefore the cold and snow that dominated last week, I felt spring pushing up like new shoots. Once or twice, out in the yard, I heard the birds singing: perhaps they, too, felt spring’s approach.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis morning, having dropped my kids at school, I climbed from the car to hear a long, single-note call. Perhaps 30 seconds later, it repeated, insistently: this bird would not be ignored. It called invisibly from high trees across the street, at least 100 feet away.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe description of the bird’s call “struck a note” with me. Checking the internet, then my earlier posts, I recognized the caller as a varied thrush.<\/p>\n
\nStill cold from nighttime, the morning was bright and clear; this varied thrush dominated the soundscape with its beautiful call. It filled me with optimism.\n<\/p>
\nSource:\n<\/p>
\nBirds Inc.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nallaboutbirds.org<\/a>\n<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about seasonal lifestyle: the tutor mentions an observation. Before the cold and snow that dominated last week, I felt spring pushing up like new shoots. Once or twice, out in the yard, I heard the birds singing: perhaps they, …<\/p>\n