What do you see?
For all this spring has not been, it has been a bird-lover's paradise!
We are enjoying a rainbow of feathered flurry!
Here are a few shots from the past 24 hours...
Here are a few shots from the past 24 hours...
Above; male Baltimore oriole...below; female
Above; killdeer sitting on a nest in our garden;
lucky for her there has been no tilling or planting activity so far to disturb her!
Below; Rose-breasted Grosbeak
lucky for her there has been no tilling or planting activity so far to disturb her!
Below; Rose-breasted Grosbeak
above; ruby-breasted nuthatch...below gold finches
above; bluejay...I really wish I could have gotten a shot of the flock of approx. 8!!!
below; mourning dove all in a huff because of the newcomer(the grosbeak:)
below; mourning dove all in a huff because of the newcomer(the grosbeak:)
and this small bird below is an immature female oriole!
(who new, birds have immature females too. 😅 )
My pics are not perfect due to shooting through a screen and tot-smudges on the window and a camera that has trouble focusing but you get a bit of an idea what fun we are having!
There are many varieties of sparrows visiting as well!
below a blurry shot of a chipping sparrow (or a song-sparrow?)
We all came and looked and saw
Criticism found the flaw
Love found hope and beauty’s bloom
Misery saw trouble loom
Thankfulness sang joyfully
Self-pity cried ‘woe is me’
Fear saw the approaching night
Faith was awe-struck by the light
Greed saw little to amaze
Worshipers were filled with praise
© Janet Martin
It IS amazing! Such variety. Baltimore orioles are very hard to spot in Baltimore ironically :) Last spring-summer we saw one for the first time. It had a nest in a forest next to our backyard, so we got to see it going back and forth, and sometimes resting on our fence.
ReplyDeleteA lovely poem, Janet!
wow! I assumed they were named for your state and perhaps lived there year round!Until this year spotting one was a treat. This year there are so many! i wonder why. Funny though, when I googled Baltimore Oriole images to find out what the smaller paler one was all that came up in images was your baseball team;-))
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DeleteMaybe there used to be more of them?.. Maybe they live in more rural areas. Don't know. Never saw them in the city, or in parks. The one we saw last year, made a nest in a tree in a secluded wooded area, so I figured they like privacy.
ReplyDeletethe ones we have seem very shy! I'm happy to enjoy a close-up look because the bench we put the oranges on is right outside our window but as soon as they sense movement or shadow they are gone!
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