Escape

So where do you go to escape? This where I go to escape, my backyard. When the sun is coming up, the birds are singing or when the sun is setting and the mosquitoes are singing. This is still my escape.

The Watchers

Ever get that feeling you are being watched. This Cooper Hawk did not let us out of it sight. This past week as Kim and I walked along the creek, not far from our home. We would walk a little distance and the Cooper Hawk would fly to meet us and watch us some more. This buck with it new velvet antlers, did not move as we passed, but just watched as go by. Then there is the Gnome, that watches over the back yard. Are you a watcher, or the watched? Enjoy the week.

What

Most of the week, it rain here. But when the sun came out the birds came out. The Redwinged Black birds where at full volume. The Mallard ducks, where doing what ducks do in the Hosta's. But can he explain the feather from his bill. The Gold Finches where back to spenting the day bathing. And the Bully of the air, (Red Tailed Hawk) was looking for an easy meal.
Kim is baking and the canning has started! Fresh batch of spaghetti sauce. So good. I have had the bike out, and the wind burn look has set in. This can only mean that summer is on it's way!

Don't Move

Often, one of us is saying don't move or come here quietly. Well this time not only did Kim not move, this little Oven Bird did not move. Tucked deep in the brush, along side the trail it sat. Waiting for us to move on. An Oven Bird is about four inches in length, no bigger then a Gold Finch. As I was taught, keep looking for what should not be there.  Keep looking, you might find one also.

What Time Is It

You do what at sunrise? and as I post photo's from the weekend (11 AM). I know that some of you are still in bed. But, being the kind of person that does not like to miss the sunrise and feel like my day is wasted, if I am not going by 6 AM. Going birding is great for Kim and I. That hour after sunrise is the best, it is quite, the bugs are less and the bird are moving. I know that you are thinking, get a life. But the song goes "I can sleep when I am dead". So try it you might like it you have nothing to loose.