#bird watching
On Sunday, I desperately had to get out of the house. I am still recovering from surgery, and very tired. I get physically worn out and sore just standing or sitting too long. But it’s so beautiful outside! I asked my SO if he’d give a ride to the nature park so I could shuffle about a bit and sit on the benches, just to enjoy the fall weather. I was lucky enough to see, along with many other birds, a Cooper’s Hawk and this Barred Owl, which I got many photos of, until my camera ran out of batteries.
Then I watched as it swooped down, inches from my head, pounced and caught a garter snake, flew with it into a tree right above me, and killed and ate it. Too bad I hadn’t charged my camera battery before going. -_- I did get photos of that with my cell phone, at least.
(I’ll come back here soon, when I’ve got the energy.)
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Great tits (Parus major) in the garden
Swans
“Il lui reste toujours, du dernier hiver, un peu de neige”
Jules Renard, Histoires Naturelles
New Kingfisher brooch has flown into the Etsy shop!
bulbul bird sitting.. then flying away~
Downy woodpeckers forage on trees, picking the bark surface in summer and digging deeper in winter. They mainly eat insects, but they also feed on seeds and berries.
Eastern Bluebird
Nests are constructed in trees within abandoned woodpecker holes or other cavities that provide adequate protection (usually several feet above ground). Both parents cooperate in raising the young, which they feed a diet consisting almost entirely of insects.
I often hear the chirp of a Carolina Wren around 7am these days. I spied this one in the afternoon and it wasn’t making its usual call.
A Northern Flicker pecking a hole into the maple tree in my backyard
