midafternoon
Mother's Day picnic at Rusch Park
warm and sunny - clear skies
70's - such a treat!
Picnic tables in the spotty shade of big oaks, creek runs a semi-circle course around our favorite spot...
Earlier I saw a pair of brown squirrels foraging in the grass, later a pair of robins, now a magpie poking around -
looking up from the picnic table
Birdsong - squawking cry of magpie, twittering of songbirds too tiny to see. I see a robin but he's not singing (someone else: twee twee twee) robin flies off to join another, black and white flash of magpie wings, nearly constant twittery twit twit tweedle in the background, scrub jay on the dead branch of a nearby tree, for a moment, then on to an empty picnic table and back to a tree
much later, spotted a pair of little blackbirds, probably a source of much of the twittering
