That Green…
It starts with that lime green! The light reflected on the lighter coloured birds makes them appear green! As the weeks of May move on, through the seemingly never ending rain this month the greens are slowly changing.
To that deep green background! And yes, it depends upon the light..sun..what’s that the Mewberries want to know? Ha!
We have had enough rain now, thanks! Today Mike started the fireplace…yup, feeling like early Spring and not the last day of May! How does it go? It may rain, it may snow, it may be sun? Ha! Whine, whine, whine! Just remove the “h” and it makes everything better;) Ha! It’s made photographing the hummingbirds a bit harder, need that bright light for those quick speeds! Lot’s of other feathered friends to look at as well as the forest has come alive with song! They are hard as f*@~ (Insert your favourite letters here…) to find in the leaves but we have caught a few! Ha! Why are there not any green birds here? It would be perfect camouflage!
This must be the year of the Ovenbird! I counted three separate birds on my walk out, one foraging on the ground and two in the trees. Sadly foraging they do pick up ticks, this one has one over it’s eye. I can tell a Red-eyed Vireo song from a few hundred yards away now. I’m honestly not really a birder, I just like to take their pictures so many of the songs escape me! Now if they are bright red…that certainly helps me find them! Ha!
The singing Scarlett Tanager made my walk in the rain worthwhile! He doesn’t seem shy at all, watched me as he carried on singing and poking around the bark for snacks. The Cardinal surprised me at the end of the road where there are pines, I heard him singing as well before he appeared! The Grosbeaks, they are all over!
We still have a few Blue jays hanging about, they come in for their peanuts in the morning! A lone Eastern Towhee has been poking about under the feeders as well. The LBB’s and LYB’s, little brown birds and little yellow birds have headed for the woods except for an occasional visit! An American, wait, Canadian Crow has been spending some time hanging around, that’s a first!
The Baltimore Orioles have taken over the orange half and jam jar. We have at least three different males of various ages and colouration. The female has a fair bit of dark on her head so maybe one of last years kids as well? Hard to tell. Last years was completely yellow on her head!
I’ve had to take down the small metal suet feeder as the squirrels and Grackles have been raiding it. The Red Bellied Woodpeckers aren’t pleased but have learned to use the squirrel proof one, I think I need to invest in a new one, it didn’t quite survive last years bear mauling!..0_0..
I see more of the male now than the female, opposite of early Spring! She is busy nesting I believe.
It’s not ALL birds here, well, there are a lot! I’ve been keeping an eye on the Trumpeter Swan down the road! Still sitting! Almost a month now! Babies should be hatched out soon!
We drove up to see the Great Blue Heron Rookery as well yesterday, wanted to see how the one nest that was left was doing! They have been rebuilding! Four nests in total. One fairly large baby in one close to the water and I could have sworn I saw some fuzzy heads in one of the others! I’ll check back next week!
On the way home we came across a large, what I thought at first glance was a Painted Turtle but no, an endangered Blanding’s Turtle. I helped him/her across the road…not taking any chances there! Beautiful yellow throat!
We had a record number of Painted Turtles sitting on the log a few days ago. I think as we’ve had so little sun this was a great day or it was the Long Lake Swamp council meeting! Perhaps discussing swamp severances with the Bullfrog;) I could make out 20 Painted turtles, plus there is the guy to the right just in the shot and then on the stump to the left front with his lovely bullfrog buddy is another guy! 22 in total!
I’ll catch up on the dragonflies, butterflies and wildflowers tomorrow before this becomes a novel! The Mewberries have been busy as well! Exploring their new Mewberry Mobile! Ha! More pictures to come! Saludos amigos. I’ll leave you with this little ray of sunshine called a Ruby-throated Hummingbird:)
