A small leather bound journal, the Critter Look Book, is handy next to my easy chair near the picture window.
The birds are migrating this time of year, and my husband, feeds them in two feeders that he has engineered to keep the squirrels out - for the most part.
The Chickadees and Nuthatches stayed with us throughout the winter and in March, they come and go and disappear looking summer - thinner. But now a Flicker. Everywhere Finches in the trees, and everywhere Juncos on the ground.
Then comes the Sparrow Hawk and all the flutter stops.
When the neighbors start tapping the Maples, a Robin. Then two sporting Robins and - several yellow Canaries, the RedWinged Blackbirds, and a long line of Swallows on the electric wire.
Two pair of Pileated Woodpeckers.
Two Mourning Doves feeding on the ground with the blackbirds.
Two geese nesting in the reeds.
Two swans on the lake, stay and nest - I’ll call the girl Celeste.
Lone goose on the hill with a view from all sides.
The pair of Loons are back from last year and appear in the middle of the lake. A muskrat crosses over and under in back of them.
The swans take off and land again.
(We don’t have Pelicans landing here-small environmental lake, but we pelicans clustered together in a boggy pond ten miles away.)
The pair of geese appear on shore keep three goslings close. Other adult geese have landed, two on each side…protecting?
May 12th, orange and black orioles find the oranges cut in half and on the ground.
Gold Finches dot the branches that are just budding out.
Rose Breasted Grosbeak is dominant at the feeder.
Four Mourning Doves and half a dozen Blackbird - and maybe a “dozen” very large raindrops if that.
There’s that danged squirrel again.
May 21, a Bluebird after a welcome day of rain. Showers of blessings! Welcome spring!
May 23, At the feeder for only a moment, a Scarlet Tanager -bright red, wings black. Not seen before by me.
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