For The Birds

My winged friends have helped my vocal rehab fly by!

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I write this to you from the standing desk in my office. I have placed this desk before a large, ground-level window that looks up at the tree where I’ve hung a cluster of bird feeders. It’s amazing I’m even able to type this sentence, given the magnificence of the birds frolicking a few feet away. My gaze is endlessly pulled up and out. The modern impulse to capture it with my phone proves irresistable.

I mean, seriously?!?! In this moment alone I captured a male and female Northern Cardinal, a Red-bellied Woodpecker, a Dark-eyed Junco and (my personal favorite) a Tufted Titmouse. I am not such an ornithologist that I can identify these birds off-hand, but now the apps on my phone can do that for me — via a photo or, and this is fun, listening to their songs!