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Fields near the village Baranów in central Poland, just before the sunset :)
Pola w okolicy wsi Baranów oświetlone wieczornym słońcem :)
A small mountain lake shines like a gem in the mysterious atmosphere of the evening. On the left, part of the Mont Blanc massif Italian side.
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I had not seen any birds of this species for years. We used to have them on the homestead every winter when I was a child. (Many moons ago 😛 )
They appeared one very foggy, rainy morning shortly before Christmas and stayed for much of the day; but have not returned since. They are a very beautifully colored bird. But as I recall ......... also very gregarious, tend to take over the feeders, and are not particularly tolerant of competing species.
There had been a rather large flock coming into the feeders at my sister-in-law's, for almost a month. But they have not been in for several day. She is only about five miles distance from me. I rather suspect that these are an irruptive population whose local feeding grounds may have been decimated by the drought and/or wildfires.
Silence is therefore important even in the life of faith and in our deepest encounter with God. We cannot always be talking, praying in words or keeping up a kind of devout background music. Much of our well-meant interior religious dialogue is, in fact, a smoke screen and an evasion. Much of it is simply self-reassurance and in the end is little better than self-justification. Instead of really meeting God in the nakedness of faith in which our inmost being is laid bare before Him, we act out an inner ritual that has not function but to allay anxiety.
-Thomas Merton, Learning to Love, 42
The sky one evening last week - I couldn't resist taking a photo.
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A beautiful male Evening Grosbeak seen yesterday at the Sax-Zim Bog birding area in northern Minnesota. He is cracking a sunflower seed from a nearby bird feeder. St. Louis County, MN 02/11/23
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I spotted a flock of Evening Grosbeak in the Columbia Valley south of Cultus Lake. They could be heard quite clearly but they were doing most of their feeding in the conifers and it made it difficult to see them.
The diet of evening grosbeak is mostly seeds, some berries and insects. Seeds make up majority of diet, especially seeds of box elder, ash, maple, locust, and other trees. Also feeds on buds of deciduous trees, berries, small fruits, weed seeds.