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Bird watchers say there are birds that return in spring to play build a nest, raise their young but as seasons change there are always some who stay the winter, forage for seeds familiar ones that cling as autumn bleeds. The robins well know the proper time to come and go and as the chill begins to fall black-capped chickadees and wrens tweet their call with caped juncos and titmouses slipping thru the trees riding in on a wintry chilled and icy breeze. Others stay like the screeching blue jay clinging to a set of traditional ways there is a click of cardinals bright orange and cherry red slip in and out the old decaying garden bed, woodpeckers like the big red-bellied and downy glide sideways up trunks to find their bounty. As winter ice and snow begin to fade familiar feathers return to the glade robins, sparrows, orioles and waxwings flit in and out the yews nesting in houses left from buntings of red and indigo blue you can catch a glimpse of the bevies in their gathering mocking catbirds, wrens, doves and finches blabbering. Birds of spring return in March on varied dates some earlier far sooner than late born for flight, scanning the earth escapes reaching back in time unable to hesitate, called by an ingrained memory back to the place of their fledgling treasury. Surely there are more feathered flybys but climate change and migratory spies and sadly on occasion, some clusters face extinction by the human race finding fewer familiar species in the states the greed and corruption of primates. They're just birds some will say but if Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring arrives how many will we find, survive? For Spring BIrds contest sponsored by Constance La France 2/19/21
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