Wordless Wednesday: Fish crows

Gulls in the mist

Ring-billed Gulls, misty day in October at Haddam, on the Connecticut River

Fly away

Do you ever have the urge
to fly away from yourself?
To leave just a memory trace of feathers
against a bright blue sky.
To fly way up high,
to Siberia,
to Tasmania,
to a world that isn't your own.
Just for a time, not forever.
Like the rogue bird that separates from the flock
and flies miles from its range,
puzzling everyone,
defying explanation.

I do.

The White-tailed Kite that strayed to Connecticut for much of the summer
and has now been spotted in New Jersey, still far from where it's usually found.
Photo copyright Frank Gallo.

Wordless Wednesday: Fall

Mondo Pond, Milford, Connecticut, where Greater Yellowlegs roost