FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] It's a jungle out there now

[Peter Burke <redclayrambler@xxxxxxxxx>]

The jungle is not just in the tropics.  It?s here in Virginia too, keeping 
alive the summer residents we describe in daily VA Birds entries.  Every time I 
walk through local forests these days, I see images similar to those of forests 
I have trod overseas: lush, overlapping green leaves on majestic trees, the 
equally deep shade of morning & evening, the sheer, simple intensity of the 
landscape, echoes of tropical bird calls.

That landscape has a thick green carpet, the verticality of brown tree trunks, 
and indirect light emphasizing that green-upon-brown.  It?s especially lovely 
earlier in the morning & later in the evening.  In the morning the forest is 
pierced serendipitously by misty spots of light and temperately noisy with 
birdsounds; in the evening the light is clearer but soft (the sun tired from a 
day or work?) & birdsounds more rare.  It is a thing of peace & simplicity.

We share our local jungles of choice with neo-tropical birds which follow their 
jungles of choice north & then south.  Enjoy!

 

Peter Burke

Alexandria


                
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