The bird at the top is the male.
The bird at the bottom is the female.
They could be mistaken for different birds.
Painted Bunting
Black-headed Grosbeak
And a house finch.
Jockeying for position.
A couple willets
Usually they’re at the waterline foraging, but here they are on a post.
Willets are conspicuous, and a coastal thing, except when they go inland to breed on the prairie in the summer.
Progress
Post-cataract surgery, as expected, the sight in my right eye is improving every day. That’s normal for the first week or two as my eye and brain adjust. I got the multifocal lens, so now I see well at any distance without glasses and even though the vision in my left eye is pretty good, my right eye is already better. But now I miss something. I miss the transition lenses on my glasses that go from light to dark and keep the sunlight just right whether I’m indoors or out, sunny or shady! If I want that back, I’ll have to find some nonprescription photochromic sunglasses. That’s funny. Now that I don’t need glasses, I’m looking for glasses.
Not what I want
I want to send out a really good closeup of an American Oystercatcher. But I don’t have one. The best I’ve got this year is this.
He wouldn’t let me get any closer. The faster I walked, the faster he walked.
