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chicadees at our feeder

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.04.05

At last, our bird feeder saw some use today. Two chicadees came to feed repeatedly while we were there.

Kenny spotted them first, which was a neat trick because they were actually behind him. We also saw a robin lurking about, but it didn't approach while we were there.

It's been about two weeks without a single bird until today. I had been entertaining the idea of simply shelving the thing, maybe depositing the seeds on a fence-top or fence-post rather than hold out any hope of birds coming.

rand()m quote

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln