tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60576902238967483572024-03-20T21:15:51.322-04:00nature calling“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once again.” *Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2043125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6057690223896748357.post-51571533553439898382023-05-07T10:11:00.007-04:002023-06-12T16:01:47.504-04:00Now on Instagram
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Being Good Samaritans, they picked it up and took it home to give it aid and comfort. The foundling seemed healthy, even perky. It would flap its wings but it just wasn't old enough to fly. Using a cotton swab, they fed it sugar-water and it ate. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">After a few hours, they called <b>Sharon</b> at Ijams and Sharon called me and I called them. Should I rescue it and take it to a wildlife rehabilitator? I called <b>Lynne McCoy</b> and we chatted. Because the young one seemed so perky and healthy, we decided the best course of action was let Mama be Mama, if at all possible. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I called Janet and Steve back advising them to place the young one in a small box and return it as close as possible to where they had rescued it from the street and place the box as high as they could above the ground and pray that Mama would find it. They were even able to place a feeder nearby. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This morning when they checked on the box, Mama buzzed them as if to say, "Thank you. But it is my job from here on!"</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Still at home. Still playing it safe. <br /><br />But, if you walk slowly through the woods behind my house, over the sandstone ridge and down into the hollow to the wetland where it is cool and shady and the soil is heavy and damp you'll discover that <b>black cohosh</b> is beginning to bloom. That means it is June.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Still at home. Still playing it safe, but look what came to visit a couple of nights ago. I was on the front porch and he dropped in for a visit. Can there be anything more beautiful patrolling my house at night? I live in the woods but rarely get more than one or two visits like this per year. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yet, we were called upon to transport an orphan robin from the <b>UT Veterinary Hospital</b> to wildlife rehabilitator <b>Lynne McCoy</b>. Of late this has become a treat because we get to visit for a bit with Buzzy, the orphan <b>black vulture </b>Lynne is caring for until it is old enough to fly away on its own. And yes, isn't it wonderful how nature makes baby animals so adorable so they will be cared for. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Using the Charlie Monday method, Lynne has determined that the vulture is a female. Buzzy is also quite healthy and eats whenever it is offered. And that is a lot. We admire all the work Lynne puts in to save the wildlife under her protection. </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">And what do we find? One of our favorite trees in bloom.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">In the speak-easy days before spell check, heck I'll go one better, before Mr. Webster's dictionary, spelling was more an art form than a science.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Case in point: the Native American Catawba tribe lived in the Southeast along the border of what is today North and South Carolina. Beautiful country, I've been there.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Catawba were primarily an agricultural people that were friendly towards early European colonists but constantly at war with other Indian tribes. (Big mistake! If the tribes had worked together and driven us out, we'd all still be living on the moors.) </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Today, roughly 2,600 Catawba still remain, mostly in the Palmetto State. The group has a tribal totem: a tree with showy white flowers. The tree bore their tribes’ name: catawba but because of a spelling error, the describing botanist—a man named Scopoli—recorded the name as “catalpa,” and that’s the moniker we use today.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Catalpa</span> or catawba, misspelled or not, it’s still a beautiful tree when it’s in full bloom as it is now. With large heart shaped leaves, it's a fine example of southern treedom, which really isn't a word but in the spirit of freestyle spelling, I'll use it anyway.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Day 56. We sincerely thank all of the health care workers for what they are going through during this crisis especially on Mother's Day. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Betty Thompson</b> is our eye-to-the-sky in Kansas. Betty is also a retired nurse and a birder with a camera. When her husband Tim asked what she wanted for Mother's Day, she wanted an outing. She wanted to find a species she had never seen before and get some photos. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This species probably never gets cabin fever. It is on the go too much of its life. The yellow noggin blackbirds called <b>Bobolinks</b> are long, long distance migrants that spend their winters in south South America in countries that include Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay. A single bobolink may fly 12,000 miles round trip during its migration south to north and back. Plus, its chosen habitat is grasslands where it flies considerable more each day in search of food.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Bobolinks spend their summers across the northern tier of states up into Canada. But if you look at any range map, there's an isolated summer population in northern Kentucky and one in Kansas. To find that lone spot in Kansas was Betty's goal for Mother's Day. A needle in a hay stack? But that's the joy of such treasure hunts. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"We drove to Paulo, Kansas, just south of Kansas City," emailed Betty. It was about 2 1/2 to 3 hours northeast of where they live.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>At Day 55, we are still playing it safe. Being mindful of the moment. Savoring the day-to-day rhythms of our lives, waiting for something wonderful to present itself...and it usually does with proper patience. <br /><br />Here in East Tennessee we are fortunate. We have five species of brown-backed, spotted thrushes that spend time with us. All are accomplished songsters.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The <b>hermit thrush </b>is<b> </b>only here in winter, returning to the high Smokies and north into the New England area and Canada to nest in the early spring. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The <b>wood thrush</b>, perhaps the most beloved of the group for its song, nests here in the understory of wooded areas so we hear them from late April until August.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That leaves three species that simply migrate through the Tennessee Valley. The <b>veery</b> nests in the Great Smokies and farther to the north and the long-distance migrant, the <b>Swainson's thrush</b>, passes through in the spring and nests in Canada.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>That only leaves the mysterious migrant, the <b>gray-cheeked thrush</b> that also nest in Canada and Alaska. Listed as uncommon but regular by TWRA, they perhaps fly over Tennessee at night in the spring and fall if the winds are favorable. But if the winds are not, they take a rest stop in our woods. The gray-cheeks are also noted for being quite shy, not showing themselves readily. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Local artist, <b>Vickie Henderson</b> sent me an email. She had scored a Thrush Trifecta. Wood thrushes had been singing around her studio home in the woods for a couple of weeks followed by visiting Swainson's thrushes, but much to her surprise, the most elusive gray-cheeked thrush, a life-bird for her, joined them after the rains passed through and even posed for a few photos. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I was called on this afternoon to transport a few orphaned animals from the care of <b>UT Veterinary Hospital</b> to wildlife rehabilitator <b>Lynne McCoy</b> in Jefferson County. This time it was three young rabbits and a robin. Lynne will care for them until they are old enough to be released into the wild.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I also got to visit with the orphaned <b>black vulture</b> under her care that was found at the base of a cliff in Newport. I first reported on it April 21: click <a href="https://stephenlynbales.blogspot.com/2020/04/day-37-crestfallen.html"><b>crestfallen</b></a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This <b>Bay-breasted Warble</b> is a long-distance migrant. Most years they probably fly over Tennessee on their way from the northern countries in South America to their breeding grounds in the boreal forests of Canada. Now that's a flight, 1800 maybe 2000 miles. Perhaps, Colombia or Venezuela to here is only halfway. And it just stopped by my woodland to grab a meal of caterpillars before it completes its journey.</i></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> How do they do that? </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Day 49: Here in Tennessee, we think the quarantine has ended. But most of us are staying quarantined taking a wait and see approach. We're being cautious. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Besides there is a lot happening outside around our homes. This afternoon a <b>blue-headed vireo</b> with white spectacles passed through migrating to the Smokies and places farther north.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Did we see it? No, we didn't have to but we heard it above the driveway as it moved through the canopy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>To recognize the blue-headed's song, that is really more of a lengthy conversation than a melodious song, you really need to know the red-eyed vireo's vocalization. For that species it's a long series of phrases, one after the other after the other. A mnemonic like, "I'm up here, don't you see me, please look up, I am in the tree." And so on and so on with very little space in between. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The blue-headed, once known as the solitary vireo, is very similar except there is a lot more space between the phrases. Almost more space than phrase. "I'm up here.........don't you see me........please look up........I am in the tree......" And so it goes for a very long period of time. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Ob-la-dee, ob-la-da.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>And thank you Dr. Fred Alsop, who taught me this a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Day 48: Here in Tennessee, we think the quarantine has ended. But most of us are staying put taking a wait and see approach. We're being cautious. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is also May and the temperatures are warming, so we'll expect to start hearing male <b>Cope's gray tree frogs </b>(Hyla chrysoscelis) croon for a mate at anytime. Their breeding season runs from May to August if conditions are right, a sultry damp evening, a gleam in the eye. The pair only need a temporary pool of water. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Both <b>Lynne Davis</b> and I recently took surprising similar photos of Cope's grays and we live miles apart. So we know they are out and about at least thinking about the season at hand. The less-than-your-thumb sized frog is named to honor Edward Drinker Cope, noted man of the natural sciences including herpetology, who first described the species in 1880.</i></span><br />
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