Magical Moment in bird watching

[dem in texas]

I used to be a serious birder but now too old to do any birding anymore(85 yrs).

One of highlights of my bird-watching was around 1970 or 71. We lived in Anchorage Alaska and one morning I Looked out the kitchen window and shrubs and trees were full of Yellow Warblers. It was like having a yard full of canaries. They were migrating down from the Arctic Slope. Turnagain Pass on east side of town was a major fly-way for migrating birds.

This way before I-phones so no pictures. But that magical morning is stored in my memory forever.

[wendyb-NC]

1. That definitely was a magical morning

Flocks of yellow warblers, so much color. Thanks, for posting the description of the migrating warblers.

It is hard to believe the advances in technology that enable, the (cell) phones, of today, to be much more than a telephone. You can have it on your person, wherever you go. Use it as a phone, a camera, a file cabinet, picture album, a television, or a book, we humans can't multitask like that. These phones, let us communicate in so many more ways than the old black, bakelite clunker, that sat in the front hall on an occasional table. The camera feature, is so helpful, allowing extemporaneous photos to be taken of stunning moments in nature, or everyday life, like when my oldest son was 15 months old, he bent over, and kissed the cat.

Oh well, I do have to say the wonderful scene you described in your post, conveyed the moment very well. The ones that are moment/pictures from life, never go away or get lost. Thank you again, dem in texas.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. thats the best kind .

[Mousetoescamper]

3. Your imagery lighted my imagination

I've seen yellow warblers here in Pennsylvania, but your "yard full of canaries" brought the image to life.

Those kinds of memories, when we remember ourselves in a moment when all of the senses were attending, are precious. No device could ever record the fullness of those memories.


I opened your post expecting a photo but received something much more substantial.


Thanks!