We have three feeders out. Every one of them looks like this all day long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y55EgAhHt9E I’m exhausted. Big day tomorrow. Judy and I each have surgery to finish removing some skin cancer. Same kind for each of us. Same place. It will be an all-day affair.
Sunday
Saturday’s walk was at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. From morning light on moss draped oaks
To hanging vines
To storm damage
To a scenic overlook
With a view from the hawk tower (past a lower tower)
Which included a lift-off of 250 Broad-winged Hawks (No photo. They were too far away.) and an Olive-sided Flycatcher (Photo). See him at the top of the tree in the previous photo too?
From there, we went by Tom’s place to see how his lot looked with his new casita (during a thundershower).
And photographed an RV site that has the concrete surface we’re considering for our spot.
That cloud of blackbirds in the background got our attention. A closer look showed that most of the birds were Bronzed Cowbirds, with European Starlings and a few Brown-headed Cowbirds mixed in.
To hanging vines To storm damage To a scenic overlook With a view from the hawk tower (past a lower tower) Which included a lift-off of 250 Broad-winged Hawks (No photo. They were too far away.) and an Olive-sided Flycatcher (Photo). See him at the top of the tree in the previous photo too? From there, we went by Tom’s place to see how his lot looked with his new casita (during a thundershower). And photographed an RV site that has the concrete surface we’re considering for our spot. That cloud of blackbirds in the background got our attention. A closer look showed that most of the birds were Bronzed Cowbirds, with European Starlings and a few Brown-headed Cowbirds mixed in. A friend sent this to us
Fall is in the air
A front is trying to push its way through and it’s breezy. At 7am, before dawn, it was so cool that, for the first time since we got back here, we had our morning coffee inside. Can you blame us? It was only 75 degrees! Yes. Fall is definitely in the air.
Count the egrets
Those white dots on the trees….. The trees are not in bloom. They haven’t been decorated. Those white spots are egrets come in to roost in the evening.
Mostly they’re cattle egrets with a few great egrets and snowy egrets mixed in. The black dots are neotropic cormorants.
Mostly they’re cattle egrets with a few great egrets and snowy egrets mixed in. The black dots are neotropic cormorants.