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Like many of you, I follow the ‘nextdoor’ app to keep in touch with what is going on in my community. Lately it has been flooded with bird photos, from fledgling owlets, and crested cormorants, to circling pelicans and yellow-headed blackbirds. This last couple weeks I have enjoyed the lyrical singing of red and yellow Finches in our yard and around the eQuilter warehouse. One neighbor shared that the first hummingbirds showed up today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often when I leave work just before sunset, there is a chorus of multiple bird species. Lately a large blue heron appears slowly gliding across the sky as I get in my car. Tonight there was a pair of Canadian Geese slowly working their way through our patch of native grasses out front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pull out my phone and open the Merlin Bird ID app, to capture the songs and learn who is singing around me in the moment. Yesterday I spent quite a long time watching a European Starling who had perched in a tree close by. There was nobody else around so I felt I had a private performance, and the gift of being in the moment with this miniature minstrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occasionally there is a breathless announcement on Nextdoor, that a new species has been spotted…passing through on migration. Due to climate change this is one of the things we are noticing, as the timing of migration routes is apparently confusing some of the birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am delighted that people are taking such an interest in the migrating birds this time of year. Last year we had a huge flock of waxwings stop by the creek in our neighborhood, attracting a crowd of photographers and birding enthusiasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the one bird I wish would appear is….
The Dove of Peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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