Lorna took this photo of Paul Prappas and I shortly after our Rose-throated Becard vanished before we were able to get a camera on it - both feeling a combination of exhilaration and dismay - staring at a hole in space where a bird once perched, Paul dreaming of what might have been.
Paul reported it to eBird and the next morning when I walked down to the park there were already people milling about searching the trees. We have occasionally checked the neighborhood since, but the bird has proven to be a "one day wonder".
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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. And of course, Willie Nelson's tune "Me and Paul" hits the right chord.
It's been rough and rocky travelin'.
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