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Nature
09/25/2013
05/10/2012
Nature Walk
I'm joining Elisa for a Nature Walk.
Yesterday I began in the yard...
The bluebirds have fledged and it was the most strange and dismal fledge-day I've ever known, but at any rate, here is one of the babies hiding and looking sweet.
Don't you touch my child!
I checked on the Tree Swallows' six eggs, almost due to hatch.
I next went across the street to look for more baby blues. Late spring is full of the songs of the summer birds. Orioles and Buntings and Towhees were singing. And crows were hard at work building a nest; I ended up sitting for several hours on a hill of dirt watching birds and other things.
Last weekend a couple of us made a 'monument' in one of the empty lots, a small tower of stones. So it turns out, it is excellent for attracting butterflies. Here is a Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis).
The bluebirds did have another baby hidden in a honeysuckle bush, into which they would frequently fly, arousing the dim clamor of a hungry fledgeling. They then would return to their favorite bug-hunting perch and look at me.
Red-tailed Hawk flew over.
The Cooper's Hawk caused alarm, but he was just passing by too and no one got eaten.
-Everybody take advantage & look at the difference between the Buteo hawk (Red-tail) and the Accipiter (Cooper's)! The Buteo is short and stout. The Accipiter is long and thin.-
Presently out came a happy little family of greedy groundhogs. The mother caught sight of me over a big leaf and sent the little ones packing. They appeared again eventually though and had a large luncheon.
I also saw Indigo Buntings, Yellowthroats, a Palm Warbler, catbirds aplenty, a Green Heron, Field Sparrows, etc. It is the time of year here when every other bird is a catbird, but every other bird could be anything (Empty lots are really something).
Thanks to the hostess of the day!
Posted by Lydia