04.04.22 - 04.14.22
Remarkably, Tsuki (月) is still around, usually sleeping and warming up on a high branch of the makai playground kukui nut tree nearest to Starbucks.
Mum and dad still bring her fish, which she gobbles down in faster than you can raise a camera and get a shot. We all hope Tsuki will come back to have her chicks with us!
On the bright side, the kukui nut trees on the makai playground are routinely scrutinized as potential “nesting” spots. Manu-o-Ku (white terns) do not make nests!
One pair, in particular, looks ready to settle down in one of the trees over the front gate. So much so we removed dead branches that looked like they might not be safe for a fluffy little tree angel.
Enjoy a few photographs taken since the last tern post, April 2, 2022.
04.04.22 — A Busy Day
One reason that birds matter—ought to matter—is that they are our last,
best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They’re the most
vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was
before people arrived on it.
—Jonathan Franzen (author, bird lover)
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window.
You’d be a fool to miss it.
—Charlotte Eriksson (author, songwriter)
04.06.22
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
—William Shakespeare (playwright)
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation.
—Carol P. Christ (historian, theologian)
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen.
—David Attenborough (natural historian)
Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.
—Gary Snyder (poet)
I think the most important quality in a birdwatcher is a willingness to stand quietly
and see what comes. Our everyday lives obscure a truth about existence –
that at the heart of everything there lies a stillness and a light.
—Lynn Thomson (author)
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali polymath)
04.08.22
In order to see birds, it is necessary to become part of the silence.”
– Robert Lynd (author)
I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than aeroplanes.
—Charles Lindbergh (aviator)
04.11-22 - 04.14.22
Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.
—Roger Tory Peterson (naturalist, ornithologist)
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
—Emily Dickinson (poet)