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Dear Jerry (if I may be allowed to speak personally),
Lucky you! to have seen these charmers. Thanks for sharing,
Carolyn
On Jul 21, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
JM: additional echoes from ADa with VN's satire..
Van's eye over his umbrella crook traveled around a carousel of
Sapsucker paperbacks (with that wee striped woodpecker on every
spine): ...
JF: Speaking of echoes, I hope I'm allowed to post two pictures I took
today near the Santa Fe Ski Basin (New Mexico) without a thought of
Nabokov in my mind. The first shows two immature Red-naped
Sapsuckers. The second shows a butterfly drinking sap from a hole in
the bark of a willow; the sapsuckers may have made the hole and anyway
they had presumably been drinking from it and eating insects attracted
to it. I believe the butterfly is a Red Admiral, not a common species
around here. Apparently they like sap. (No doubt it makes a nice
change from dead rabbit.)
For another Nabokovian connection, there's a Sapsucker Woods at
Cornell. The University has used it, under that name, for bird and
other nature studies since at least 1957.
<http://books.google.com/books?id=mg4fAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Sapsucker+woods%22+Cornell
>
(The sapsucker found near Cornell is the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
which the Red-naped has been considered conspecific with.)
Incidentally, considering both the ecological connection and the bold
red and white markings, I wonder whether a thought of the Red Admiral
flitted through Nabokov's mind when he put a sapsucker in Ada.
Jerry Friedman
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Lucky you! to have seen these charmers. Thanks for sharing,
Carolyn
On Jul 21, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
JM: additional echoes from ADa with VN's satire..
Van's eye over his umbrella crook traveled around a carousel of
Sapsucker paperbacks (with that wee striped woodpecker on every
spine): ...
JF: Speaking of echoes, I hope I'm allowed to post two pictures I took
today near the Santa Fe Ski Basin (New Mexico) without a thought of
Nabokov in my mind. The first shows two immature Red-naped
Sapsuckers. The second shows a butterfly drinking sap from a hole in
the bark of a willow; the sapsuckers may have made the hole and anyway
they had presumably been drinking from it and eating insects attracted
to it. I believe the butterfly is a Red Admiral, not a common species
around here. Apparently they like sap. (No doubt it makes a nice
change from dead rabbit.)
For another Nabokovian connection, there's a Sapsucker Woods at
Cornell. The University has used it, under that name, for bird and
other nature studies since at least 1957.
<http://books.google.com/books?id=mg4fAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Sapsucker+woods%22+Cornell
>
(The sapsucker found near Cornell is the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
which the Red-naped has been considered conspecific with.)
Incidentally, considering both the ecological connection and the bold
red and white markings, I wonder whether a thought of the Red Admiral
flitted through Nabokov's mind when he put a sapsucker in Ada.
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman@yahoo.com for off-list replies
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