John K:
Yes it is a nice view from that south-facing sliding glass door. Pennsylvania Beautiful stretches away through our woods and beyond to a large meadow the deer like to graze in late in the year, then over the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna basins and on to the Mason-Dixon line and beyond! The woods we live in hold deer, raccoons, opossums, screech owls, great-horned owls, pileated woodpeckers, and red-tailed hawks. The smaller passerine birds, the ones my friends from the deep South call Dicky-birds infest our woods - wood thrush, rufous-sided towhees, and veerys, in late spring and summer, massed cedar waxwings foraging through the honeysuckle bushes in the Fall, ground-loving slate colored juncoes, northern chickadees, tufted titmice, and nuthatches through the winter. The prevailing winds beginning in mid-spring are the south south-westerlies off Chesapeake Bay, smelling of stirred up muddy bottoms caused by heavy flows of the Susquehanna as it washes Pennsylvania into the flooded estuarine waters of the Chesapeake.
