Thursday, April 2, 2026

Day 2: No Competition

Jays with their brash flashes of blue

spy the flock of dapper gray and white juncos

their bright yellow beaks finding the

first fresh food of spring after the rain.


The Blues mingle among them,

strut and flutter, nab a snack,

wings wide whisk to a higher vantage . . .

sated, unmoved, the juncos move on.


Buel P. Colton, Zoology: Descriptive and Practical (Boston:D.C. Heath & Co., 1903) 241
University of South Florida

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