Monday, March 15, 2010

Hope, muted

Winter just got a little sand-colored, orange-legged, breast-banded stake driven through its icy heart.*

I made my March pilgrimage this weekend to greet the newly-arrived Piping Plover at Sandy Hook, where it felt very gray and wet and winter-like, but hopeful, still. Woodcock are next, if it'll ever stop raining and blowing!

*C. Vogel, quoted without permission from Jersey Birds, on his find of a Piping Plover at Cape May yesterday.

3 comments:

RG said...

He'll be flattered!

Gosh but the weather news is so rotten from back there!

bobbie said...

Sooner or later, it's got to stop! The plover does bring some hope.

dguzman said...

I saw a Piping Plover there last year! Neato.