Things I’ll Miss About Kansas City #1
In Saturday’s sunshine I was standing in the back garden watching a couple of things for about five minutes, or two hours - it’s hard to tell the difference when you live a life of refusing to work.
What I watched was a Flicker and a Monarch independently going about their business, ignoring both me and the dog.
A Flicker is a kind of woodpecker, larger than the other woodpeckers you tend to see around here like the Downy, Hairy and Red-Headed, all of them black and white birds with a careless daubing of red paint in the head area.
What was in my garden was the Yellow-Shafted Flicker, and he plodded around the garden happily looking for things, coming up as close as ten feet away at one stage.
See the Flicker on Wikipedia
While the Flicker was flickering in the dead leaves, just a few feet away a monach was doing its thing among the weeds. A monarch is a sovereign ruler who reigns over a territory by hereditary right, or straighforward conquest, right up into senility and death.
Unfortunately Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t interfering with my dandelions; instead a beautiful and very large butterfly was casually going around trying to get its as yet not born grandchildren ready for the trip to Mexico.
See Wikipedia
Oh, and when I say garden I mean yard. And when I say yard I mean a stoney soil of a thousand dandelions.
See Also:
• What Do You Miss About Ireland?
• You Can Build An Igloo in Kansas City
• Online: Staying Irish Away From Ireland
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