Posts Tagged ‘bird’
The visitation
19May23
The day after the funeral for my niece Meghan, I was busying myself planting petunias in the pots that I hang from my back deck every spring. I needed a ladder to reach one of the higher pots, and when I lifted the pot off its hook, a bird flew out. I immediately recognized it […]
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Tags: angel, bird, dove, life, Mark Sardella, Meghan Sardella, mourning dove, nest, plant, visit
Close Encounter
19Jul09
of the Unbearably Cute Kind I was standing waist deep in water, about to go for a swim in the pond behind my house (Sluice Pond – Lynn, Massachusetts), when two tiny ducklings and their watchful mom swam up and approached me within an arms length. Obviously, since I was about to go for a […]
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Tags: bird, birds, duck, duckling, ducklings, ducks, fowl, Lynn, Lynn MA, Lynn Massachusetts, mallard, mallards, nature, pond, ponds, Sluice Pond, waterfowl, wildlife
Mark Sardella 