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[ZiprHead]

Usually we have hawks and eagles in the area, but they’ve scoping our neighborhood more often now.

I've got a photo of a hawk on my phone somewhere. It was on a power line around the corner from my house.

Someone in town caught a photo of six bald eagles in a tree in the island park in the center of the city. Nice to see them making a comeback in the area.

 

[crazyfingers]

I like how this new software makes posting photos easy. Be sure to click on an image to open it.

Last few so far this month.

Female brown headed cowbird and the male second.
Gray Cat bird
Yellow bellied sapsucker



Most of the recent pictures are from my yard but some are other close by spots. Pond ones are other spots

There are tons of robins and cardinals in my yard but I have so many pictures of them I don't really try for photos. The lawn is full of robins and cowbirds

It seems that my yard is full of animals. Maybe it's just that it's my first spring retired.

The turkeys are all around. They wander all over my road. There is a lot of woods here.

White tail deer. I see and hear them but haven't gotten close yet this year.

Chipmunks all over the place.

Red and gray squirrels

Lots of blue jays. Over the years I have more and more.

Lots of woodpeckers. Mostly red bellied.

I almost never see house sparrows any more. My yard was infested with hundreds it seems 10 years ago.

In January I did get a lifer. Yellow-bellied sapsucker. We are at their northernmost range in the winder. They are woodpeckers but they dig a hole in the tree suck the sap. Literally.

 

[bilby]

They are the monsters of the insect world. Fascinating but Ik.

Spiders aren't monsters. Just misunderstood.

Have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's excellent Children of Time? If not, you should.

 

[crazyfingers]

Spiders aren't monsters. Just misunderstood.

Have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's excellent Children of Time? If not, you should.

Sounds like Hagrid about Aragog. Spiders are misunderstood. So are dragons. Especially the Hungarian Horntail.

No I haven't. Haven't heard of it.

I read to my kids all the Thornton Burgess books on animals. They are great intros to animals for kids. At least US northeast coast.

 

[crazyfingers]

Tomorrow if my plans aren't spoiled I'll be going over to my parent's (my other) house. There are different birds there. It's about 35 minutes away.

 

[Hermit]

Ik spiders. They are the monsters of the insect world. Fascinating but Ik.

I like birds most.

Oh birds are nice. I like them too.

So does Mayhem.

Don't worry about her noshing the occasional honeybird. The species is nowhere near endangered. The birdbath is a popular hangout.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

They are the monsters of the insect world. Fascinating but Ik.

Spiders aren't monsters. Just misunderstood.

That are a wasteful! What do they need 8 whole legs for other than to look really creepy?!

I never kill spiders though. I let them be... in their creepiness.

 

[crazyfingers]

Afraid the trip to my parent's house wasn't a blockbuster. Not much going on at the house other than robins and catbirds. I should get the feeders going. I pretty much check out the house once a week

There is an old reservoir and conservation land across the street about 10 minutes walk.

Been playing here since around 1965. Fishing is sunfish and horned pout (small catfish).

Anyway
Looking down the long pond
Land bridge between two ponds
Red-bellied woodpecker
Grackle checking out the mud
A robin in my yard later

 

[crazyfingers]

A mourning dove and a northern cardinal in my yard today.

 

[crazyfingers]

A Northern Flicker was very very interested in the cracks in the driveway. I took some pictures and then went to see what was so interesting.

It turns out that it had discovered an ant nest. Flickers are interesting woodpeckers. They are woodpeckers but instead of pounding on trees to find bugs they scuff around on the ground. They have an almost identical build as a red-bellied woodpecker but totally different coloring and behavior.

 

[crazyfingers]

More photos from the last few days.

American Robin. On the cat fence

Chipmunk. I have a lot of these. I wish some would move away.

Wood Frog at my parents house

Canadian Goose at the conservation land by my parents house.

 

[crazyfingers]

Today's wildlife in the yard.

The turkeys are still walking around in the yard

I knew that there was a spider in the Yakima car rack pole on my wife's van

The Northern Flicker is hanging around still. It likes my ant holes in the driveway. I have not been able to observe many flickers before so it's very cool

I see this bunny, Eastern cottontail, most days now. It hangs out in the grass and shrubs by the garage and the lower side yard. It's getting a bit used to me. If I walk not at it but diagonal so that it can see it will pass by it will let me pass without running. I'd say right now I can get about 20 feet from it without it getting spooked enough to run. I was pretty close in the picture below and eventually it laid down as in the photo

 

[crazyfingers]

From today

I think that the first photo is a young chipmunk. Perhaps born this spring. I've never seen one with the very light markings on the fur like this one in the shadows. I should read up on Chipmunks. There are so many this year.

Two photos of an adult chipmunk.

A gray squirrel. They are mostly staying in the woods. Visit to the front yard is not too common right now.

 

[Elixir]

Here’s a birdie (turkey vulture) warming his six foot wingspan in the morning sun.

 

[crazyfingers]

Here’s a birdie (turkey vulture) warming his six foot wingspan in the morning sun.

We have lots of turkey vultures flying around but I haven't ever seen one on the ground except strangely near the bridge separating Ontario from New York state about 10 years ago. And then they were far away. I'd like to experience the hugeness of one some day.

We also regularly have red tail hawks around. At least them I've seen sitting on tree limbs.

There is a tiny black dot in the sky in the center of the photo. Very hard to see. You may need to zoom in to see it.



Zoomed in it's a Red Tail


It was a fabulous day for weather. Sunny. Around 73 in the sun and 68 in the shade I'd guess. Pleasant breeze. Low humidity.

It's strange that though I went out with the camera many times very little wildlife activity was going on today. A few chipmunks and robins. Fewer than normal. Odd for such nice weather.

 

[Elixir]

I love our raptors!
We’ve had red tails, Coopers Hawks, Sharp Shinned hawks, Bald Eagles, Kestrels (my personal favorites to watch) all nesting on the property, along with an assortment of owls. It amazes me that there are still rabbits, what with the menace from the skies combined with coyotes, bobcats and big bull snakes on the ground. But there they are. They must breed like … rabbits.

 

[ZiprHead]

We have lots of turkey vultures flying around but I haven't ever seen one on the ground except strangely near the bridge separating Ontario from New York state about 10 years ago. And then they were far away. I'd like to experience the hugeness of one some day.

Turkey vultures are common around here in rural areas. I was making a delivery in farm country east of the city and came upon three of them feasting on some road kill. Birds will almost always fly away when a car approaches. Not these guys. They gave me a look like "WTF are you lookin' at?". I had to drive around them.

 

[ZiprHead]

Sitting on the porch yesterday morning and a big fat groundhog came rambling across the street.

 

[crazyfingers]

Sitting on the porch yesterday morning and a big fat groundhog came rambling across the street.

They are rare to spot here.

Ground hog
Woodchuck
Whistle pig

 

[ZiprHead]

Sitting on the porch yesterday morning and a big fat groundhog came rambling across the street.

They are rare to spot here.

Ground hog
Woodchuck
Whistle pig

Not uncommon here. I think he lives under the next door neighbor's back porch. Or it could be a completely differant porker.