i also love the term, and find solace in the magick brought about by doing
nothing more than watching the everyday mundane birds at my feeder...

as an example, yesterday: there were intermittent squalls all day long, and
about dinner time i looked up to see about 20 finches (house and gold)
maneuvering for position on two tube feeders of sunflower chips and one tube
of niger thistle... as there are only so many landing sites, at any one
time there were at least a few "mundanes" flitting from one spot to another
above and around the feeders. some were more aggressive than others, some
waited their turns. some preferred the niger, upside down, some preferred
the chip, right-side up...

a few minutes later, a troop of northern flicker approached the party, and
the finches scattered to the nearest aspen to complain. one flicker in
particular was very protective of his new acquisition, and would take a
moment out of flicking his tongue into one of the chip feeders to bounce up
and down in a "threatening" manner while the other flickers watched and
bounced on their own.

minutes later, something would spook the flickers and they'd flit off to a
different aspen across the pond, and the feeders would be covered in finches
again.

to my bemusement, the cycle continued for another hour...

yep, it's nice to find a rarity, to photograph something that doesn't live
in the neighbourhood. however, for me, it's hard to be bored by the antics
of the mundane birds. chickadees, sparrows, finches, flickers, etc, have
their own charms, their own personalities, and i believe our world would be
better place if we understood that rare, "different", large, or uncommon,
didn't always mean better...

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
on the net near JBP

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