Dark-eyed Junco Pair

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Dark-eyed Junco Pair - The Desire of Life for Itself

Written by Todd Peterson

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[From Mozart Sonata #11 in A Major]
On a blustery day near the end of winter, I stand high on a ladder pruning an old hazelnut tree. As I stop to rest, a female Dark-eyed Junco lands on the branch before me, nearly close enough to touch. Her mate alights nearby.
[Junco song]
I breathe quietly and do not move. They know I am here but are not afraid.
I admire her subtle beauty. The muted colors of her feathers. Her nearly weightless buoyancy. Her quick, bright eyes. She cleans her small bill on the grey-green lichen of the branch.
[Song of Junco]
A squall blows in, filling the air with sound and gray light. The overarching branches of a big cedar shelter us from the rain. But a single small drop lands on the crown of her head. It glistens like a jewel.
Her attentive mate watches close by.
I want to believe that she is even more beautiful to him than she is to me. In them together, I sense the generative energy flowing through the world. I come again to know that the sacred is the desire of life for itself.
For BirdNote, I’m Mary McCann.
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Song of Dark-eyed Junco provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Song recorded by G.A.Keller
Musical  selection from Sonata #11 in A Major by Mozart pianist Maria-Joaopires
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
© 2011 Tune In to Nature.org          May 2011     Narrator: Mary McCann

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