The ones I see seem to be always crossing the road, not crawling down the road.

Why did the woolly bear cross the road? To find a sheltered site in which to spend the winter.

A woolly bear caterpillar crossed the road safely. A white-throated sparrow appeared to be wearing a Michigan Wolverine football helmet. I nearly had my throat slit by a wind-driven, dried cornhusk. A coyote ran from a bean field to a corn field, late for an important meeting, no doubt.

This boyhood encounter set Peterson on the path that would be his life’s work.ĭialogue-driven crows squawked and talked. Roger Tory Peterson, the birding legend, told the story about finding a flicker on the ground and he’d reached out to touch the dead body, only to discover that the flicker was very much alive. There can never be too many of those.įlickers filled the yard. The weather was beautiful and the presence of those birds meant it was certainly a bluebird day. There had been bluebirds on the utility wires. Sunny and sublime with a pleasant temperature and low humidity.

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