Our yard is currently littered by seed pods (as above) dropped by our own and neighborhood golden rain trees.
Although these “strewn objects” aren’t completely welcome, I guess they aren’t litter in the vernacular sense. For they readily biodegrade. At least if they don’t sprout first.
Powder puff plant. Now in bloom. And we’re two days shy of December. Living in Florida does have an upside. The politics and summer heat and humidity . . . not so good. But the flora and fauna . . . awesome.
A tom cranberry bird (otherwise known as a male cardinal). Not enough breast meat to top a cracker.
Carolina chickadee. In some cultures they fry small birds whole and eat them bones and all. I’d prefer to use this tiny guy for entertainment outside my window than calories on my table.
Boat-tailed grackle. Interesting bird, but obnoxious. Travels in small gangs, will empty a feeder in little time. You have my blessing to eat a couple. Maybe wrapping a drumstick in bacon would be nice. Precious few servings per bird.
Blue jay. Not many of these around my small neck of woods. The feathers might make a nice table centerpiece. But getting the bird to sit still for any amount of time would be difficult.
Don’t you dare eat this bird! A somewhat oddly named red-bellied woodpecker. At best their bellies become crimson blushed. Because it is a woodpecker and dines on dead-wood insects, and because dead wood is scarce in developed areas of Florida . . . the future doesn’t look bright for this species.
Barred owl. A carnivore. But do you really want to eat recycled lizards and mice?
There we go! Wild turkey photographed last spring on the riverbank while boating (as was the above owl). But you might want to select one of his cousins from the supermarket freezer case. Quite tasty, lots of meat. What’s not to love!
Enjoy.
Ah….Maybe I won’t try to add anything. Because it wouldn’t.
Mourning dove in the grass. Just a bird. It is born, it eats, it procreates, it dies. It’s just a bird. And humans?
Pretty though, isn’t it?
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