Noisy morning

One morning as we wend our way to the bog the neighborly rooster crows into the quiet of the unfrozen pre-spring morning, urging any and all to notice what a day it is. The hound is happy to sniff and sniff – not so much in a hurry to run today after a long romp with his pal the day before. I am perfecting a jaunty step/careful waggle, avoiding the thick patches of ice on the trail. As we near the lowest point, taking our usual left by the old tree stand, the bog suddenly comes alive and aroar with honking and quacking.

Now the hound lope-gallops the last bit down and I, eager to get there at least with him, fumbling at the camera, shuffle-gallop-jump crashing in and over old snow and ice to try to get the geese before they take their protest at being disrupted to higher places.

For once we were early but now we spend a long time just hanging out at the edge of the water counting the four ducks and three, no four geese that take their sweet time before flying off.

Then it’s hurry-shuffle home traversing lots more ice on the far side of the trail. Suddenly, tok-tok-tok-tok, there’s the woodpecker working hard to get a girl to respond to his eager pecking at the roof of the other neighbor’s barn. I think I must have heard it wrong. Nope, there he is, tok-tok-tok-tok-tok.

Late to work again.

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3 thoughts on “Noisy morning

  1. Thank you for visiting here. Yes! It was very cold all last week so they went somewhere but I think they came back yesterday.So they aee on the move.

  2. It has been a Geesey week. Just as we returned from our morning walk I heard this enormous honk,honk sound and there they were. I never thought we were under a flyway,but there had to be 150 or more and they seemed to be changing ranks as they flew out of V’s and back again. Funny because just the day before I was thinking of roast duck,not the protected ones of course.
    I have taken down the bird feeders for the season and now just throw seed on the ground.

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