Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Gray sky

A female red bellied woodpecker breakfasted on suet.  Then the downy got a turn.  White throats foraged on the ground. A couple of female red breasted mergansers paddled and dived their way upstream. Telltale paw prints on the pool cover let me know a raccoon had visited, probably for a drink. Flower stalks emerged on the purple iris.

There were lots of busy birds in the front yard, but it was hard to get them to pose.  Cardinals stayed in the evergreens.  A yellow rumped warbler hopped past the car.  Another, much further along toward summer plumage, flitted from limb to limb in the juniper.  I saw a flower bud on the clematis.  And the chionodoxa was flowering.  Bumblebees were at work making blueberries.


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