Incoming!

New(ish) Visitor

Been coming to the feeder for a couple of days now. Also a pair of house finches.

Come Hither, My Little Chickadee

Ladies Who Lunch (And One Gent)

I really wish I had a better background than my neighbors' dingy old trucks.

This is better:



And here's the ladies' escort:

A New Visitor This Morning

Regularly Scheduled Program

Every morning now.

Starling Cloud

Route 422 westbound, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Birds on a Wire

Yay! Red-Breasted Nuthatch!

And a goldfinch.
Chickadees found the seed block first.

Gearing up for impending squirrel war.

Turkey Trail

Whooping Crane

I saw one this evening. Not this particular one in the photo, but a whooping crane nonetheless.

Found a Peanut, Found a Peanut

Last night the pub was full of Ducks. I think a whole 737 of them flew in from Oregon.

Green on Green

The hummingbird was moving so fast the camera couldn't get a bead on her. This is the only shot I could get of her, and she looks like a shadow made by the plant.

Note to D: LuLu's closed!

Stella d'Oro Gull

Hoping for french fries in a McDonald's parking lot in Toledo.

D - forgot to tell you - the new bridge is open on I-280. It's waaaaaay up there. It's kinda freaky.

Fledged

This fledgling chipping sparrow twitters continusously while scratching through the desiccated mulch in an unplanted area of the flower bed. The parent birds remain nearby, protective, and still bring food to their chick.

On Birdshit

"Everyone knows that's a sign of good luck," according to Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.

And when ravens pluck out your eyeballs, it's because the Morrighan wuvs you.

Cardinal

acting like a robin.

Something to "Myeh" About

Highest zoom setting + no tripod = blurry catbird portrait

Sixty-four species seen or heard on today's oHIo Alliterative Birding Tour (Crane Creek, Magee Marsh, Oak Openings):

Double-Crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, swan spp., Northern Shoveler, Ruddy Duck, Bald Eagle, Red-Tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Turkey Vulture, American Coot, Kildeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin, gull spp., tern spp, Mourning Dove, Eastern Screech Owl, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Blue-Headed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Blue Jay, Tree Swallow, Tufted Titmouse, House Wren, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, European Starling, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-Sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black and White Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, White-Throated Sparrow, White-Crowned Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-Winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch.

D. - I don't remember any crows, which seems odd. Did you see any crows?

Sturnus vulgaris

Da Spring is Sprung

Da grass is riz
I wonder where dem boidies is?