Day 132 - a Year by the Sea

May 12, 2007 by OrientSee.

Although it was cold with a wind off the Atlantic, the flowering trees were striking. This one tree had turned into an avian meeting place. All kinds of birds were flitting in and out, grackles, blackbirds, sparrows and a purple finch. I’m not sure but it seems that some one had a color perception problem. This bird is definitely not purple. He’s not quite a cardinal but he is certainly red. The name is just plain weird. We all have problems with names. We call things according to our own inner universe and that is often a richly strange place. I’m not about to share mine with you but I am not naming bird species. You have to wonder what red looks like in that unknown bird person’s life.

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