In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a written piece. Each day I will connect to nature in some way and share it here by the end of that day. You can keep up-to-date by subscribing to the RSS feed or be notified by email. See all the 365 Nature posts.
We had a beautiful sunrise this morning in Seattle. These winter sunrises end very quickly, look down for a moment and it’ll be over. Today when I dropped my daughter off I came across a pair of Spotted Towhees right outside her ‘classroom’. It made me happy to see these birds, which can be secretive, foraging right alongside the kids playing in their forest grove.
I returned a little early for a short walk around the arboretum. A few feathers caught my eye and as I stopped to look I found many feathers scattered around the ground. Some bird met an untimely end, likely a meal for a Cooper’s Hawk. I’m guessing the black and white feathers, I didn’t see any other colors, belonged to a Dark-eyed Junco.
