Trail Wood #92 Earl Plato
It’s April 24th in Edwin Teale’s daily log at Trail Wood. I can picture the setting. Teale wrote:
“ As though in the balcony of a theater, we look down the slope of Firefly Meadow this morning, watching a small drama being enacted at its foot. It is a mystery play and we are mystified by what we see.
Spectators unobserved, we remain motionless largely hidden leaning on the stone wall under the hickory trees. Below where the slope of the meadow emerges with the lowland woods, a male ruffed grouse has emerged among the trees. With its ruff raised its body lifted to its full height. It stands facing an alighted crow. The crow changes position. It walks about. It turns away. It swings back toward the grouse again. That woodland bird remains rigid, tense, vigilant.”
Next: What happened that April 24th day?
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