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Colorado Blue Spruce

On January 31, 2019February 8, 2019 By Bardh GodwynIn Pinaceae, TreesLeave a comment

A local news station has a recurring segment they run called “The Most Colorado Thing I Saw Today.” Viewers send in photos, or one of the reporters comes across something quaint or quirky. You know the sort of thing. Cowboys skiing at Steamboat. Ranchers riding their horses through Walmart. Folks fly-fishing a flooded cul-de-sac in …

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The Very, Very Few Birds of Winter

On January 23, 2019 By Bardh GodwynIn Aves, PhotographyLeave a comment

This time of year I sometimes feel like a castaway walking to the edge of the surf and looking long and hard at the horizon. Inside the house here, plants that can’t overwinter outside are struggling: some of the Calendula succumbed to aphids; the rosemary dried — it likes neither electric heat nor wet feet, …

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Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay

On December 1, 2018December 5, 2018 By Bardh GodwynIn CorvidaeLeave a comment

Cold. A little snow. The cottontail is out between flurries, nibbling on the pale grass. She looks up when I turn the car down the drive, with an expression that can only be described as woeful. Someone on Facebook, of course, will be summiting a mountain; a friend will post a picture with people you …

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Migratory Thrush

On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Bardh GodwynIn TurdidaeLeave a comment

When I was a boy, robins were plump little things with cranberry-red breasts. They usually came with a sprig of English Holly. My experience of them was confined to the graphical: they were on Christmas cards from Gran or Auntie Millie, almost every year, and they were European Robins — not the big-bodied thrush of …

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Strange birds

On November 15, 2018November 18, 2018 By Bardh GodwynIn MimidaeLeave a comment

Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in …

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