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December 18, 2020

Bolsa Chica: Searching

 Bolsa Chica. Heron. Always searching for something.


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#TGIF




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Published on December 18, 2020 09:35

December 17, 2020

Bolsa Chica: Egrets

Bolsa Chica. Egrets.


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Published on December 17, 2020 08:26

December 16, 2020

Pickleball in Seal Beach

Seal Beach CA. Waiting for my pickleball partner.


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Published on December 16, 2020 18:24

Hariett Wieder: Hummingbird

 Bolsa Chica. Hariett Wieder Park. Not great (I was afraid if I got any closer I'd lose the little guy) but it's my first hummingbird. Hariett Wieder was a bit of a letdown (nice playground but very little access to Bolsa Chica) but I think it's a work-in-progress re birds and the reserve.


#rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #bolsachica #hariettwieder #birds #hummingbirds #thelittleguy #huntington #seapoint #parks #reserves #poetry #walking #vanishinglandscapes 




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Published on December 16, 2020 06:20

December 15, 2020

Bolsa Chica: Killdeer

Bolsa Chica. Kill-deer Kill-deer Kill-deer.


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Published on December 15, 2020 17:18

More Buffleheads

 Bolsa Chica. Trinity of Buffleheads. If you zoom in you might glimpse some of the iridescence in the black.


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Published on December 15, 2020 14:34

Bolsa Chica: Osprey

Bolsa Chica (first time in weeks). Mr. Reliable. Didn't get a lot of action because I got there late-morning. And yet he was there: same spot, highest perch. Not very good pics -- from Best to Sleepy Hollow Routine -- but I'll blame it on the sun and his preening time.


#rlswihart #rl_swihart #bolsachica #osprey #southerncalifornia #birds #birdpoetry #poetry #readmorepoetry #walking







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Published on December 15, 2020 08:02

Bolsa Chica: Bufflehead

 Bolsa Chica. Bufflehead. (Faraway and didn't get the iridescence on the head.)


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Published on December 15, 2020 07:59

December 14, 2020

The Gnawing Mouse

 Poem by Ezra Pound. Even when I forget the exact wording (my mind always changes "full" to "long"), the gist is there. I think I also connected (long ago) the field mouse to Michelangelo's gnawing mouse. Anyway ...


#rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #ezrapound #mouse #fieldmouse #gnawingmouse #poetry #reading




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Published on December 14, 2020 07:38

December 11, 2020

Evening Walk

Long Beach. Evening walk: Colorado Lagoon (coots = mythological earth-divers) and Marine Stadium (sunset).


#rlswihart13 #rl_swihart #longbeach #coloradolagoon #marinestadium #sunsets #coots #creation #mythology #poetry #readmorepoetry





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Published on December 11, 2020 18:35