Little bird

 I was working in our studio Monday afternoon and Carlie stuck her head in the door and said, "Jima,
come quick". I followed her through the kitchen to the small room by the back deck and there by the window was this small bird looking a little stunned. It had accidentally flow in through the door which we had open to take advantage of the warm outside air and couldn't figure out how to get out. She said it had banged against the window several times trying to escape. I stood for a minute trying to decide whether just to close the door to the kitchen while leaving the outside door open, hoping it would find it's own way out or try to catch it and take it outside.

 

I finally just reached out and took it gently in my hand and while talking softly to it took it outside and set it on the deck railing. I rubbed its back softly and continued to talk to it asking that it wait for a minute while I went to get my camera to take some nice pictures of it.  It was still there when I returned, confused and slightly stunned I assume and I took quite a few shots of it from all angles. The colors and subtle textures of it's feathers were fascinating to me. I really liked the odd and asymmetrical white spot on the end of one tail feather.

After I finished taking pictures it started moving moving a little and
making short little flights of a foot or so and then in a flash it was off into one of the trees 15 or 20 feet away. There are flocks of these little guys around, very fast, moving through the trees that are full of berries in the yard. I haven't been able to find a picture of this one on the internet yet so don't know the species.

Sunday morning early as we were getting ready for the book sale at the breakfast at the Caspar Community Center, we were treated to this really incredibly dramatic sunrise, what a treat.