Early in the morning, I walked four miles alone through the broken
hills near my house. Through tall
sagebrush and juniper I went. Across shale arroyos. Across ancient river-wash stones and prickly
pear cactus. Through bluestem grasses. Under a blanket of sky-crawling clouds.
Two hours of just me.
Along the way, I learned two things.
One: Throwing sticks remains satisfying in middle age.
Two: Red-winged blackbirds will yell and bluster at you if you
enter their space.
—Mitchell Hegman
So do magpies. I get yelled at every morning in the summer when I deliberately park in what I call the South 40 lots so I can get some steps in and prepare for my day and decompress at the end. The ones in my part of the world also fling pinecones. Rude. :)
ReplyDeleteMagpies and ravens are noisy just for the sake of being noisy. I have also watched them pestering my cat and the local deer. They are so human! Haha.
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