Come In As I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music - hark! Now if it was dusk outside, Inside it was dark. Too dark in the woods for a bird By slight of wing To better its perch for the night, Though it still could sing. The last of the light of the sun That had died in the west Still lived for one song more In a thrush's breast. Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went - Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. By Robert Frost Am I getting too old to do the Christmas Bird count or am I just getting out of shape? Either is a disaster!!!! But here I am at home all day today with the juncos, chick-a-dees and mourning doves.... watching my feeders while Elizabethton counts all the birds in the area. And I have done this so often for decades in snowy cold windy bitter awful icy muddy weather... but this day... this CBC 2005.. Woe is me! So how will I be a participant? I did get a kick, in fact, became intrigued with the limericks on the website this week... (Wallace this surely qualifies for the bird listing... I know you will let me know if it does not.) Robert Frost once wrote, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." And he continued, "For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." To give some insight on Frost's success as he grew in age after a spell of being in decline as a writer, it is said that his new poems had a surprising vigor... reflective intensity, seasoned in experience, fresh in emotion. Ahhhhh! Frost with age...... Interesting... I did not realize how this would end!!!! Fascinating how the mind works. I surprise myself! Tess Cumbie Buladean, NC Mitchell County Elizabethton Birding Club =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count in which the birds you report were seen. The actual date of observation should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________