At first the creek was shiny with reflected sun, but later when the light fell directly, the reflections were softer. I saw an egret fly downstream below the dam with a heron right behind. Busy white throats and downy woodpeckers stayed focused on breakfast. A nuthatch slipped in with the feeder regulars. The myrtle warbler looked like it had rolled in pollen. It alternated with a couple of blue jays on the bark butter balls outside my window. Squirrels ate buds as well as feeder scraps. I don't think last year's acorn crop was very good.
I took the camera to visit the wetland project behind the Larchmont Library. I could hear lots of different birds, even a red winged blackbird, but I was severely scolded by a male red bellied woodpecker. The water was very low in the pond and many things were making ripple rings, possibly coming to the surface for air. Fish or tadpoles?
There were interesting solar powered gadgets and a very interesting mesh over the mud banks of the creek from the pond to the river. It looked like the way paper decorations fan open and some of the openings were full of mussels. Small fish swam in the creek below the bridge but upstream toward the pond there were more rings of ripples.
Back home, only a few turtles were basking. Oak buds were popping and our maple that always lags was getting red. I saw an egret land in the top of a pine but there were far to many branches in the way for a photo. The sky got hazy, then clouded, and muted the sunshine. But for sunset the clouds broke into brilliant pink bars.
At first the creek was shiny with reflected sun, but later when the light fell directly, the reflections were softer. I saw an egret fly downstream below the dam with a heron right behind. Busy white throats and downy woodpeckers stayed focused on breakfast. A nuthatch slipped in with the feeder regulars. The myrtle warbler looked like it had rolled in pollen. It alternated with a couple of blue jays on the bark butter balls outside my window. Squirrels ate buds as well as feeder scraps. I don't think last year's acorn crop was very good.
I took the camera to visit the wetland project behind the Larchmont Library. I could hear lots of different birds, even a red winged blackbird, but I was severely scolded by a male red bellied woodpecker. The water was very low in the pond and many things were making ripple rings, possibly coming to the surface for air. Fish or tadpoles?
There were interesting solar powered gadgets and a very interesting mesh over the mud banks of the creek from the pond to the river. It looked like the way paper decorations fan open and some of the openings were full of mussels. Small fish swam in the creek below the bridge but upstream toward the pond there were more rings of ripples.
Back home, only a few turtles were basking. Oak buds were popping and our maple that always lags was getting red. I saw an egret land in the top of a pine but there were far to many branches in the way for a photo. The sky got hazy, then clouded, and muted the sunshine. But for sunset the clouds broke into brilliant pink bars.
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