I just watched a flock of about 75 snow buntings in a corn field in Piermont about 1 mile east of the Bradford/Piermont Bridge. Stunning birds! On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Mark Council <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I live in Fairlee, right in the CT River valley, adjacent to a large open > field next to Hodge's. Every winter at some point I see at least a small > flock of snow buntings in the field next to my place, but today there's a > flock of over 200. A group of about 15 broke off from the larger flock and > came right up to the back of my house and were underneath the feeders(!) for > a few minutes. That's a first in my 21 years here, especially to see them > less than ten feet from my kitchen window. What gorgeous birds. > Mark Council > > -- > It's not by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is actually > an empty hole through which the world becomes known to us. Likewise, in a > spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we see everything. > It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil, for it is only > when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that we become truly > teachable. -Mark Nepo > **************************************************************** To post > messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail > application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: > [log in to unmask] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based > archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > **************************************************************** **************************************************************** To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html ****************************************************************