Day 350 - a Year by the Sea

Snow Dancer. This is very easy to do. You can strap on snow shoes and walk across the surface of the snow or you can weigh less than an ounce and just walk naturally. The snow surface is actually littered with wind blown plant bits including seeds. The small birds like this American Tree Sparrow forage off the seeds. They are not particularly bothered by clumsy humans coming close. After all we humans can’t dance on the snow crust. So the birds feed and ignore the big ugly two legs. There were also Juncos who were feeding this way. Junco comes from the Spanish for rushes like phragmites. These birds actually feed on the ground and not the reeds. Junco is a great name nonetheless.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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