Oversion’s Weblog

Every day I was in Windsor I had these rushes of oxygen to the lungs for joy of the parks and roadside grasses and other public and general land returning to thrilling variety of earthly life! After decades of having to go out of one’s way to find neglected scrubland for all the ‘other’ species (as well as the usual ones full grown) suddenly every type of plant is welcome, and birds and animals and moths and bees and dragonflies and on and on are restoring themselves and it is good. Those depressing parks of decades of cliche with the short grass that can’t withstand heat and the barely formed trees and just about nothing else, oh why!?  …At the bottom of this post you will see the strangest one – a red tree rabbit I believe – seen only in myth for so long – but consider this first: yellow sepia cardinal? cedar wax wing? IF you look at your birdbooks you will see variations, none look quite like it though. Wings extended it’s certainly no canary. Almost a blue jay relative, as much as cardinal. The photo where just its head shows above the leaves is the clearest of the head; the one with it blurred shapeless in flight shows the wingspan; the others show just how different it can look in varying shades of light. …At the same time, after first attempting a while to photograph a pair, I discovered a bunch more in another tree. There’s

lots.