You made me think of that line “No thrush may sing a new moon in if all screech owls have not heard his voice.” The screech owls should picket, but where? Cummings is gone.
Thanks for mentioning this! I do think that in these parts the Hatch Year and Second Year screechers took a heavy hit due to the very cold and snowy late winter. I’m surprised at how few I hear at night around my house. And checking some boxes further east of my location - nothing but cob-webs where in previous years there would be screech owls winter roosting.