The colour orange, and red, and blue and pink…Ha! Not more birds!
Yup…but this too! It was quite the sight! Everywhere you looked colour flooded the sky! I scrambled to get outside as it was changing so quickly!
A gift to go along with all the returning snowbirds! The Hummingbirds and Orioles are back!
Such an amazing flash of colour! The lady oriole arrived today, but we’ve had three males hanging about all week. I wondered if they were father and sons from last year, as they don’t seem to be bickering…
The lady was not impressed;) First girl of the season! Baltimore Oriole “Who was that eejit?” Ha!
…we also had a lady hummingbird show up! SO Happy!
It’s been a late year, too cold I guess. They may have been secound guessing why exactly they came back this early;) “Enough rain!” he says! It’s always a treat to sit and watch and photograph them.
He’s a boogie woogie wing boy. ♫♪♫..I’m your Boogie Man ♪♫♫…or he wants to ♪♫♪ Get Down tonight!♫♪♫..or ♫♪♫ That’s the way I like it!♪♫♪ He just might be a KC and the Sunshine Band fan;) Or he may just be a John Travolta fan as well;) ♫♪♫ You should be dancin’ yeah!…♫♪♫ Hahahaha! It was fun finding all that disco;) As you can see, he’s been very cooperative!
We’ve had our slew of regulars as well…not just the fancy pants guys! The Woodpeckers have been busy bossing the Red-Winged blackbirds around!
As I wait for great light and sun to photograph the ever elusive Hummingbirds I have a few other visitors nearby:)
These guys are nattering, OK, singing their hearts out! Everyone’s looking for a girl!
Some with more luck than others!
The Goldfinches are a smile a minute!
At first we had one male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, then there were 5 of them! Talk about colour! What you don’t often get a picture of is the red under their wings! I keep trying!
They don’t fuss with each other much, an occaisonal bad word but no fighting…yet! The ladies have arrived as well! I sent these shots to the Brome Squirrel Buster feeder maker!
So many birds! This Crow has learned to dive bomb the Grackles after they leave the suet feeder, snack in hand, er beak, it gets dropped, and the snack and the crow fly off with it!…for every bully, there is a bigger one;)
I haven’t spent much time down at the water with all the excitement around the feeders, but there have been three Sandhill cranes flying around, maybe over in the swamp!
These could wake the dead, and startle the living with the amount of noise they make flying over! Sandhill Cranes. If you’ve heard 10,000 of them, it’s something you’ll never forget;) The Osprey has also made a few passes! It flew over with what I thought was a fish, but when I looked at the photo, it was a twig or some kind of nesting material.
Are you tired of birds yet?! I’ll leave you with a late afternoon lake shot of beautiful clouds and reflections and I’ll catch up tomorrow on bugs and nonbird stuff, ha! OK wildflowers too, and our nesting swan so maybe SOME bird stuff! Saludos amigos…
