Each night we sit on the
patio - surrounded by a cloth gazebo with black nets - attached to our friends
house in Salina [pronounced Sal eye na].
We watch the antics of the many and varied birds feeding from the two enormous
bird tables, the squirrels which walk the tightropes of the telephone wires and,
as it gets darker, the many fireflies darting from place to place and lighting
up the night.
Usually birds are in an
aviary but it really feels as though we are in an aviary watching the
birds! The birds with the brightest
plumage are the red cardinals [which are so quick it is difficult to catch them
on camera] and we have seen oriels, collared doves and robins among many
others. They grow huge robins in the USA
and they are akin to the size of our thrush.
I think I prefer our little dinky ones.
We just love watching the
fireflies and cardinals.
