Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:41:16 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sam Droege Subject: Evening Grosbeak in Upper Marlboro MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Since I rarely detect Grosbeaks anymore, and then only in the early Fall, I thought it interesting that 2 weeks ago I heard and saw an Evening Grosbeak on the Patuxent River at Queen Anne Bridge and this past Sunday heard one again in the same area. sam Sam Droege FROG@USGS.GOV w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5784 USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 12100 Beech Forest, Laurel, Md 20708-4038 Http://www.mp1-pwrc.usgs.gov Such power in the naming of things - to walk out in the greensward pronouncing goldfinch, lilac, oriental poppy - as if the shaping of the thing in sound produced a pleasure like the sight of things as if the house finch winters in the mock-orange is as tasty an intelligence to the lips and ears as the sight of a small purple bird in December is perched in a thicket of bald branches. June you remember: the white blossoms, yellow jackets, the fresh scent of heaven. And other incarnations to be named: nuthatch, magnolia, coreopsis, rose. Surely this was God's first gift of godliness - that new index finger working over the globe assigning from the noisy void those fresh, orderly syllables. Ocean, garden, helpmate, tree of knowledge. Making came easy, creation a breeze. But oh, that dizzy pleasure when God said Eve and the woman looked heavenward. -Heavenward by Thomas Lynch ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================