GARDEN OF THE GODS — Linda Hodges has a want record of birds as she begins circling the Kissing Camel rocks, on a February day so painfully sunny the blue of the sky and the burnt orange of the sandstone would disgrace a present store decal.
Prairie falcon. Juniper titmouse. Woodhouse’s scrub jay. Townsend’s solitaire. Would that any of those winged pals present up this superb morning.
On the again facet of the Camels, a grey streak flits right into a 12-foot juniper groaning with berries. A Townsend’s solitaire wants as much as 50,000 berries a winter to remain alive, and can resort to intraspecies violence to defend the pantry.
Otherwise, the solitaire is a sweet-songed fruit-lover that’s shy round strangers.
It’s sophisticated.
Just like its identify.
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