After my recent post "Warm Rain on Whimbrels" a tweet suggested that it might make a sequel to "Snow Falling on Cedars". I didn't quite catch your name on your post, but I thought that was a good idea!

I'd already gone in a whole other direction though. After saying Warm Rain on Whimbrels just once out loud, I immediately thought of the great "Bard of W" - Elmer Fudd. Somehow this segued into the Beatle's "The Long and Winding Road".

You see, I spend a lot of time working by myself "outside" doing fairly non-intellectual gardening chores, or mopping pub floors, stuff like that. So I make things up to entertain myself. I run all my great ideas by my advisors - various plants and animals that I share my day with. Plants in particular are great listeners!

So this started out as a poem, then turned to song a bit. Written to be recited by Elmer Fudd. To the tune of "The Long and Winding Road"

"The Long and Wild Road
led Whimbrels to my Shore,
it was Warm and very Wet,
I'd seen Whimbrels before...
Wet Wood Warblers on the hill,
led me even more.

Many Times I bird alone, and many times I tried,
to figure out rare bird details, and several times I cried

But the Long and Wild Road led Whimbrels to my Shore...."

O.K., so it's a work in progress. The Fudd part is important to make it all work. Alas, I have no Fudd transcription app, on my computer so you'll have to use your imagination - always the best app anyway. So draw on your inner Fudd and sing along!

Yesterday, driving down for my now daily Whimbrel check, I passed two Cottontail bunnies along upper W. Marine View Drive, which I rarely see in town. I took it as a sign of approval from Elmer. "Wascally Wabbits!"

So hopefully that will satisfy a daily minimum requirement of Vitamin W.


Jeff Gibson
Everett Wa
Where We Weally have Whimbrels.