Doin’ The Hokey Pokey

Defending His…

Ummm…

 nuts. 

Not One Sparrow

Sparrows…there’s so many of them you look out on your birdfeeders and start to think “Crap.  It’s just another sparrow.”  Then you walk out into the woods where it’s quiet and peaceful (except for the squirrels as they scamper from tree to tree) and, suddenly, your eye catches something exciting and you click the shutter and it’s then you exclaim, “Hey!  It’s a sparrow!” 

At least you do if you’re me. 

 

The Beginning and The End

Finally!  The baby geese are starting to show their faces!  Here’s my first beauty - caught her on a short trip out to Englewood Lake today.  Life…it just keeps rolling on.

 

Bad Hair Day

Those poor male goldfinches…they are right in the middle of changing over from their winter coats to their springs ones and, lord help me, most of them look hysterical.

 
They’ve been lighting up the feeders this weekend and I was beginning to wonder where all the females were when I suddenly realized they had their ‘plain jane’ coats on and were still hiding out under cover.

A Duck’s Life

Although I’ve been witness to some real terrorizing going down around the duck pond, for the most part…life is pretty serene. 

Fight!

Kind of reminds me of my grade school playground…

Another Sign of Spring

Yup.  There he sat…chasing down worms on top of the hill across from the lake.  Soon as I saw him my heart skipped a beat. 

It’s spring, baby!

Better Than Prozac

There’s just something about watching the sun go down over a lake full of water that fills my heart to overflowing. 

I am so blessed…

My Kingdom For a Peanut

The squawk and they swoop and they scare off all the other birds.  Still, I love them because they are just the most beautiful shades of blue.  This one is scouting out the location of peanuts placed stragetically around my back deck to lure them in for a close-up shot.