weather: 🌫️➡️☀️ may gray heat wave critters: sulphurs, mourning cloaks, woodpeckers, quails two quails flew over me when i scared them on accident. it was the closest i'd ever physically stood to wild quails and i'm not sure why i expected them to make wiwiwiwiwi sounds in flight like mourning doves, but they didn't. i'd seen them a million times before, i'd heard them say 'chi-ca-go' at long distances--until today, i'd never been close enough to hear that their flight just sounds like flapping the individual i saw clearly was a male. we watched each other for a long while before he and his lady decided to get out of there. his decorative bobble was majestic it seems like there are more woodpeckers in this area over the past few years. i'm sure this is a sign of deep insoluble environmental problems because the only changes allowed to happen here now are the ugly ones that hurt, so i will simply not think about it there were two woodpeckers hanging out at the top of an old wooden…
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