Assessing the yard.
Sand patterns
A buffer behind the dunes, built up at great effort with tractors and loaders; dunes which are then elaborately sculpted by the erosion of wind and rain.
I saw a statistic
It said:
“Men are twice as likely as women to have a hearing problem,
but only half as likely to admit it.”
What?
Okay
It’s gnarly trees again.
We looked at blackbirds
First, we found a place with plenty of them. The grain silos around Progresso are a good place to start.
A lot of them were red-winged blackbirds.
There were brown-headed cowbirds.
Bronzed cowbirds.
And our target for the day, the yellow-headed blackbird, in the center of this frame, to the right of the pole.
He was being reclusive.
