We miss the sugar maples back home. However, the local rowan trees (that's mountain ashes to you Canadians) do put on a pretty good show. I'm lucky to have a rowan tree just outside the window where I have my desk set up. It is an all you can eat buffet for the local birds. I've seen magpies, black birds, coal tits and bullfinches stuff themselves on its branches. The black birds are particularly amusing to watch because they are almost too heavy to perch on the ends of the branches where the berries are so they sort of do this tightrope walker wing-flapping to keep their balance. Sometimes they fall off. But then they have wings so it's no big tragedy.
No comments:
Post a Comment