When I bird, alone, is the only time that I live splendidly in the moment.



Wings,
Jane



Jane Stewart & Neil W. Burkhardt
McComb Road Nursery
751 McComb Road
Sequim, WA 98382-7882
360.681.2827 t
360.681.7578 f
mailto: mccomb at olympus.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Bletsch" <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:56 PM
Subject: a pleasant psychological aspect of birding


> Dear Tweeters,
>
> A funny thing happened to me while birding on Fir
> Island this weekend. It is something that happens to
> me several times a year, usually while birding alone.
>
> I was driving along, lost in a reverie about the old
> barn at our place near Lyman. "When springtime comes,"
> I mused, "we'll probably have Barn Swallows nesting in
> there. That'll be nice." I pictured them swooping in
> and out of the various chinks and windows, bringing
> food to noisy young in mud nests, and pooping all over
> the various items we store in there.
>
> In mid-reverie I looked up in time to see a flock of
> Barn Swallows, the first I'd seen since late summer.
>
> I had not been thinking about our current Barn Swallow
> incursion at all--the point of my trip was to find the
> Red-shouldered Hawk--so it was quite pleasant to savor
> the seeming clairvoyance of the moment.
>
> I am not referring to the predictions of birds that a
> birder makes in visiting specific habitats to see
> specific birds. For example, one often heads out to
> the mudflats in expectation of seeing Dunlin or
> Black-bellied Plover this time of year.
>
> No, this is a different sort of thing. It is a birding
> daydream, utterly disconnected from what is going on
> in reality, suddenly finding itself mirrored in that
> reality.
>
> Just wondering if other birders experience this sort
> of thing.
>
> Yours truly,
> Gary Bletsch
> garybletsch at yahoo.com
> Near Lyman, WA
>
>
>
>
>
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