Kingdom Field Notes: Mother Junco’s Secret
Little mother junco knows a secret. The tilt of her head outside the kitchen window tells me so. She knows the place where heaven and earth meet, somewhere in t...
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Do the Juncos Know It’s Ash Wednesday?
Do the juncos know it’s Ash Wednesday, flitting from willows to crusted snow, seeking the half buried seeds? Their diet is unchanged today, and their wint...
Christmas Lights
We drove to North Rustico to look at the lights, and ended up out on the point, past the lighthouse and up the dirt track, with the water on our right and darke...