Eastern Bluebird

October 29 2016 . RBG Arboretum, Hamilton, ON. Many years (decades?) ago I took a course in creative writing. One of the nuggets I vividly remember was that getting published is easy but that writing is very hard work. I’ve rarely been published (unless you count this site), I haven’t tried very hard, but I can confirm that writing IS sometimes very hard work. These little three-, four- or five-hundred word posts of mine can be exhaustingly hard to create, I really try to make them flow decently as well as capture a sense of the time and place. I often get some of it written in my head while I’m out still on the trail but only rarely does that imagined text read terribly well in print.

I tell you all of this because, despite the forgoing, I’m not up for writing much about today’s birding. But I’ll say this, it was warm, rather quiet bird-wise but a small flock of Eastern Bluebirds made the day. Here’s one of them.