{"id":1305,"date":"2006-10-12T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:39:09","slug":"postcard-of-a-favorite-feeder-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Postcard of a favorite feeder bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TO A SPARROW<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n
“Your perch is the branch<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
and your boudoir the branch also.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
The branch, the rough branch!<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
evergreen boughs closing you about<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
like ironed curtains<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
to complete the decor.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
The sun pours in<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
as the roughing wind blows<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
and who will conceive the luxury,<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
the rare lightness of<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
your fluttering toilette like him,<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
he who is lost and alone in the world?<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Princess of the airy kingdoms<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
the sky is your wardrobe<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
and yellow roses<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
the frilled chrysanthemums bending<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
to the late season your park.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Among the clouds your couriers<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
post to embassies<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
beyond our fondest dreams<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
and heaven, the ancient court of saints<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
whispers to us<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
among the hemlocks<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
insistently of you.”<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n
-William Carlos Williams<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Egret’s Nest<\/a> asked for a pic of my “favorite easy-to-see bird feeder regular bird” and in response I offer this scanned pic of a white-throated sparrow taken the Christmas after I got my first *real* camera. Like most of my bird pics, it’s not very good, but at least it’s in focus and you can tell what bird it is. I haven’t gotten much better with bird photography in the 5 years since, but I’m still trying. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

White-throats are here now; at least I think I’m hearing their lispy call notes, although I haven’t laid eyes on one yet. They are too shy, in all but the worst of winter weather, to come to the feeder nearest the house. Instead I scatter seed for them and the juncos in the back corner of the yard where it borders the scrubby field that shields our yard from the park and athletic fields behind us. They seem to me to be cheerful little birds and not nearly as prone to grumpiness as the song sparrows who are with us year round. I like to hear their “Old Sam Peabody” song and will often whistle along with them.<\/p><\/div>\n

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TO A SPARROW “Your perch is the branch and your boudoir the branch also. The branch, the rough branch! evergreen boughs closing you about like ironed curtains to complete the decor. The sun pours in as the roughing wind blows and who will conceive the luxury, the rare lightness of your fluttering toilette like him, … Continue reading Postcard of a favorite feeder bird<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}