Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
- 31 October 2011
On her blog Lucy posted this poem she wrote:
geese again!
here's yet another poem
telling how someone's heart lept
telling how new hope was born on their wings
but tell me, what kind of life is that
like rock stars, they bring us momentary joy,
excitement, forgetfulness of self
and then they are gone in the freezing sky
a damp and dangerous life of wandering, homeless
and what about the tame geese?
what's wrong with 3 square meals and a cozy shed?
a few responsibilities, guarding the house or bullying the sheep?
perhaps a swift death and an afterlife as a quilt
not the cruelty of a broken wing, a coyote family feast?
Labels: Birds
21 October 2011
Wind-up tin bird hops and lays hatchable eggs (on rez land).
100l$ at the Fortune Warehouse in Cowell or SL Marketplace.
Cowell Village - Canal Building, Cowell (122, 74, 26)
Labels: Birds, Cowell, Fortune Warehouse
19 July 2011
"Staring Out The Window" - Fulton Lights from Ninian Doff on Vimeo.
:-D
Labels: Birds
12 July 2011
'An owl was left in a flap after crashing into a window, leaving a near perfect print of himself on the glass.'Labels: Birds
18 April 2011
ZOMG
I just saw a bald eagle FALL INTO THE LAKE. They are so hopeless. It got out, but its mate was agitated.
Labels: Birds
17 October 2010
Labels: Birds
07 May 2007
Sunny and warm - blecch
I did what this morning, I wonder, before going to jin shin... Oh, yes - I was fiddling with something when a shiny orb spoke to me, then apologised and turned into a panther. We had a chat and I told him to watch out for the show. I teased someone a little in IM. I talked to Idey a bit. I went to Drive In as there had been a problem reported* at my build (but nothing was amiss). While there I made a settings sign for the show, realised I had 5 minutes before I needed to leave, set up a video to export from QTPro as last night it had chugged away for two hours (reaching 34% before I got annoyed at 2 am and shut it down). Then I went for the last jin shin of May as Frank is off to France (appropriately enough) and I don't see him again until the 4th of June.
Eagle just flew by the window - the sun makes each feather stand out clearly. Yesterday I saw the spider-gathering Stellar's jay again - she must wait a certain time for the spiders to grow plump and toothsome.
* The same person who returned part of my build later in the day had IMed me to say he'd accidentally changed my autoreturn but turned it off immediately in case my whole effing build got returned.
Labels: Birds, jin shin, Second Life
02 May 2007
Damned Bald Eagle [=>
I just saw one attack an osprey that had lifted up from the lake holding a trout. The osprey dropped the fish and the eagle went after it. Maybe it's that bad fisher eagle I thought would never survive.
Labels: Birds
25 April 2007
WHACK
This room has three sets of sliding glass door on the side facing the lake. I was just sitting here a second ago when a large woodpecker got got jiggy and smashed into the one to my left. He picked himself up and flew to a Douglas fir, apparently not having done too much damage to himself (well, concussion is his life). On the other hand the sudden WHACK on the glass startled me a great deal.
I don't see woodpeckers a lot although they are around. At my last house I had a resident sapsucker, which is very much smaller. This was a Woody-type woodpecker with a nasty sharp beak about four inches long. Last time I saw one here it was hammering away on the balcony railing, oblivious to me videotaping it (it had woken me up, I think). I sent that snippet to Anji, who told me Caitlin (a wee one at that time) thought it excellently funny.
Related to nothing, the racoons here were seriously out of hand at one point. I came home one night to a pair in my kitchen skittering about on the counters then both trying to escape through the same open window at the same time, like a couple of alarmed Stooges.
When I was doing spots for the Wa He Lut news I would make spots with things like that. Also - interviews with people who were exhibiting my student's artwork, NYC, microwaving Peeps, etc. I don't have most of the spots. Too bad, I'd like to see them. Especially "Miss Kendall's Spring Break" when I was visiting Deb, Richard, Karen, Lenny, Ismay, etc. and videotaped waiting for the tow truck to arrive after Richard's car broke down on L.I., and Lenny saying, "This IS New York."
Yesterday Tiff came over, which was fun. She feeds me, which is great. I am lucky I have friends who are interested in keeping me alive :D She is going to Romania-Slovakia-Poland-etc. in... June I think. She isn't learning any new languages, hoping to get by on English and German. She is interested in Ethiopia next, perhaps. I always, in a very mild and confused way, knew there was a connection with Judaism and Christianity and Ethiopia, but she was telling me more about it last night. I asked about Haile Selassie's connection, which she didn't know, but according to my Googling of a moment ago he was purportedly a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.