animal feeling — blog — Anne Benvenuti

Dawn Chorus (Other Nations)

This morning I saw that the Acorn Woodpeckers are well into harvest season, with or without cooler temperatures. One crew was drilling out their barns and tossing out last year’s detritus while another crew was hauling in large acorns to stuff into those clean barns: knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. I send them a Woody Woodpecker good morning. They glance briefly in my direction, like people everywhere who are focused on a task. “Mmmhmm,” they say, “I’m busy right now.”

animal family, anthrozoology, ecospirituality, human-animal relationsAnne BenvenutiSeptember 7, 2013loving nature, imagination, Henry Beston, The Outermost House, seasonal change, woodpeckers, animal feeling, animal sentience, animal play, animal behavior, ravenComment