I should say something about the election, but I don't really want to bother…maybe tomorrow.
I don't know why, but I've gotten very interested in the birds I see on my daily walks with the dogs. I find myself really wanting to know their names, what song goes with what bird, and so forth. I'm having trouble identifying them because I rarely get a view that's clear and close enough. I know this is a kingfisher, though.
I want a new camera, one that will let me zoom in much closer.
Lot of bird pictures around lately.
AMDG
Actually, I was thinking the same thing the other night.
I wrote a while back about having to sit outside for 20 minutes and write down what I heard. I kept hearing birds chirping and birds twittering and one bird making this awful scolding noise, and I was thinking that I have lived out here for 9 years and haven’t the least idea which song goes with which bird–except the owl, of course.
AMDG
I’ve learned a few over the past year or two, but not many.
I have a number of other bird pictures taken over the past few months, but none of them are very good–too far away, too dark, something. I keep trying with the ducks at the bay but they’re always in shadow and they end up just being silhouettes. I want a new camera.
We now have a camera with a zoom lens and I’m pretty sure that I could get good pictures with it. The problem is that I can’t stick it in my purse and pull it out at a moment’s notice, and I’m afraid to leave it in the car. I have to be planning ahead to use it. I would love to get a good picture of the owl and of the geese flying around.
And my small camera has passed away. It makes me very sad.
AMDG
It’s possible I could get better results from my camera if I took the time to read the book and tinker with the settings more.
I meant to ask, by the way, how your 20-minute exercise went.
I really wish that somebody would make me go sit in the backyard and do nothing but listen every evening. It was great. Since I went out at sunset, it was VERY LOUD. The birds were singing and the frogs were peeping and the crickets were chirping. I never really thought about it before but all the critters have a little worship service at dawn and dusk. I really like dawn because I go outside and it’s perfectly still, and then a bird starts singing and then a few more until it swells to this great explosion of sound. It’s kind of like a charismatic prayer meeting. 🙂
AMDG
That’s a great way to look at it. (Here comes the evolutionist to tell you that it’s all about reproductive strategies…)
Well, that’s what I’ve been reading about in Biology, and I just think, “Yes, but….”
AMDG
I don’t mean that it’s merely a way of looking at it. I don’t think that’s necessarily contradictory to its being evolutionarily-driven. Our way of looking at is richer because it can include the specifics of the materialists’ way, but theirs can’t include ours.
Oh, I knew what you meant.
AMDG
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