Stieglitze March 6, 2011
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Cantueso, thank you for displaying this on your blog. You should recognize our bird feeders by now I think. Which is to say yes, this is my own video. And I do play the piano, but very very badly. Klara Kormendi is playing an Erik Satie piano composition called ‘No. 2 Trois Danses de travers’. It came to mind when I first viewed this video clip.
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I was hoping that somebody would correct me on that USA sleep time notion.
I didn’t recognize the feeders, but the hedge and the trees, but I thought the video was too good to be, let’s say, home-made.
Now this is a is a very nice surprise, an incredibly nice surprise, something that happens once in a year or less.
Its indeed something, also that composition and its name.All those birds!
Maybe those are sparrows. Sparrows are known to be very gregarious. At least that’s what they told us at school.
Thanks again cantueso for your kind words. I’m pleased that you liked this video. It was an un-contrived combination in my mind, and whatever works here works by serendipity. The birds are mostly goldfinches. I think there was a flock of a different species (maybe nuthatches) seeking hegemony.
Regarding the time difference, I believe Madrid is on the GMT 0 time and we are GMT-5. Does that help? The USA encompasses 4 or 5 time zones, and people here just don’t sleep well at all.
Wow – and the wife and I are happy if we can get a few chickadee’s in for some food!! Still hoping the cardinal that was around all summer will start making some appearances :)
The video is not mine. I live in Spain, south of Madrid. I can only get sparrows. And from time to time I can see two storks fly by on their way back to the church tower.
David:
I may have told you that at my place the sparrows all disappeared, and we feared it was the city government trying to get rid of the doves by setting up falcons.
However, it seems to have been the new street top layer (instead of asphalt). In summer they dug way deep, 6 or more feet deep, put down new sewer pipes, next filled it all up with sand, then pressed the sand down with heavy machinery day in day out up and down the street, finally put down like cobble stones. Immigrant workers on their knees in the glaring sun all day long, 7 days a week!
All of it financed by debt, see?
And then the summer came and I think that sand did not insulate against the heat, and the cobble stones got too hot and the sparrows burned their feet, for:
They all took off the same day!
No peep peep excitement in the morning at feeding time.
Nobody came even to look at the little worm in the fig that I had saved for them.
And then they all came back in fall, all at the same time, just as they had left.
My neighbor wanted the birds come closer to her as the bird play along her porch. Giving her the idea of a bird feeder, what a delight she had as she watched red birds and blue birds find her small bounty. Their playful activity and enjoyment seemed to be thanking her profusely for her contribution to their living.