We headed north into Canada last week to shake off winter doldrums. Spring isn’t much further ahead than here but it was a good place to go for previews.
Stay tuned and I’ll take you along on our adventures.
Views of Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula. . .and beyond
We headed north into Canada last week to shake off winter doldrums. Spring isn’t much further ahead than here but it was a good place to go for previews.
Stay tuned and I’ll take you along on our adventures.
Late last month I showed you three kildeer eggs here. At the time I took the shot I didn’t see either parent on the nest so I started checking. The nest is being tended regularly and we’ve seen kildeer guardians coming and going. They’re plenty skittish so we’ve been keeping our distance. This shot was taken with Zookie, my very long lens.
I have favorite trees everywhere. This is one of them.
This dandelion is an also-ran for yesterday’s yellow theme day. They’re just starting to bloom here. Very soon our land will be virtually paved with these tenacious little blossoms.
Today’s City Daily Photo theme is the color yellow. I had to go with my favorite front yard flowers from this time of year. These were the first flowers I planted after we moved here. The bulbs were a gift from our neighbors.
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The red-winged blackbirds are showing off in the marsh these days. They have a loud, sort of chortling song and this guy was calling to a female on a nearby cattail. The males of the species sport bright red and yellow epaulets. The brown females are dull by comparison, though the chirping males don’t seem to think so.
DH found these nestled in our now dry winter pond as he mowed the other day. In fact, he discovered them after he’d gone over them with the mower, luckily doing them no harm. These are future progeny of kildeer, which are not particular about nesting locations nor staying with the eggs. (A neighbor found kildeer eggs in their gravel driveway.)
The eggs are very small; the keys are for comparison. We’ve heard kildeers around but seen more of other birds than we have any relatives of these eggs. The eggs should hatch in 22 to 28 days.