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Even if there were no colored
leaves, even if the com fields
hadn’t paled in the frost and faded
to dusty brown, even if the' nights
weren’t crystal clear with a
refreshing nippiness, we’d still
know it.
Fall simply couldn’t pass
without our knowing, even if the
most physically obvious signs
weren’t quite so pointed. For, the
“critters”know it.
Yes, the migrating season once
again is upon us.
No robins have hopped around
worm-searching the back yard for
weeks, and the mockingbird that
haunted the garden has sought
other territories. Even the usual
noisy, everyday chattering of the
birdlife that frequents the meadow
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was ominously still and silent
during a gray, overcast afternoon
walk.
Then the rains fell, softly at first,
gaining relentless, wind-blown
momentum. Through the storm
sounds came a mystical, mournful
calling, from somewhere up on the
hill striped with corn and
hayfields.
Geese, probably forced down, by
the weather, interrupted on their
journey toward the greening grain
fields of Eastern Shore, .were
calling to one another in the
darkness. Their migration never
fails to stir a mixed emotion of joy
in simply seeing their symbolic V
shaped flock flight pattern, and a
sadness of the departure of more
pleasurable weather with them.
Still another migration, though,
sends other “critters” stirring
toward distant parts unknown. A
most unwelcome migration, I
might add.
It begins with a jangling
telephone, the voice at the other
end that of the owner of a pasture
some distance. For the past few
summers, this pasture has
hospitably housed and amply fed a
number of bred heifers and select
dry cows.
Lush grass, clusters of shading
trees, freshets of water bubbling
up from beneath swampy humps of
wiry grass, all fulfill the needs of
this group, which grows fat and
lazy from May through September.
But, come late October, the
frosts wither the grasses and
pasture evolves to a condition
which the teenagers might label
“boring.” Within these bovines
wells a dormant longing for new
scenery, untrodden carpets of
grass, and the classic greener
forage beyond the fence.
This, however, is just not any old
greener grass. It belong? to a local
golf course, whose groundskeepers
hold decidedly different viewpoints
about what greener grass is to be
used for. Certainly not for yanking
off by the mouthfuls, or for dancing
through with dainty hoofed feet.
Prompt policing halts the im
pending migration of the restless
flock and two trailerloads of
heifers find themselves once more
back within the more confining
corrals of home.
Would you believe, on the same
day, I glance across the meadow to
distant hills, where black and
white bodies against a green
background turn up at a particular
suspicious comer.
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anxious glances later, the spots are
surely moving, heads buried deep
in lush alfalfa, on a course as
purposefully straight as if it had
been computer charted by NASA.
Memories of Ladino clover (the
neighbors), sampled before we
discovered that a lightning strike
had totaled the fence charger, die
reluctantly inside the hard heads
of heifers. Rounded up by the
pickup, the yearlings giggle and
kick their heels in disdain one last
time before fleeing back to the
safety of the fence.
Migration? Beautiful, majestic,
inspiring - when it’s geese.
But heifers? Forget it!
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