It is a pity because I would love to get out onto the road with my wheels, onto the backroad and to the bay, to check the birds there and before reaching the bay, having a look at the Blackthorn buds, the Aran Lily plants (sorry, cannot find the post) which I photographed last autumn, its variegated leaves a mystery to me, until Roger B. helped me out. And I would like to see how the leaves have grown.
On Monday, I had my camera with me when going to the shop and on my way home I spotted these lovely Lesser Celandine. These are typical spring flowers and they are a good sign of spring as springflower in the wild.
Lesser Celandine:
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And although I have not seen any Blackthorn buds yet, on this piece of the back road, because they all grow on the other side, but I did spot these buds of catkins perhaps?
In the garden it is mostly Chaffinches and Chaffinches. usually we see 6 females a day and 3-5 males, and battles are fought on a regular basis. One poor chappie has still a very light breast and he is being hunted by the wrong sex, because it is those with a nice ruddy breast which get the attentions.
Our pale Chaffinch pal:
One of the ruddy, redbreasted Chaffinch males:
He Loves me..., He Loves Me not....,
Some of the ladies:
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Here's Looking At You!
A different view of and JJ,
/>two of our Blue Tits
Pretty pictures! We're still only seeing winter birds here -- red breasted nuthatches, black capped chickadees and the such. In fact, we're due for another foot of snow tomorrow, or so they're saying, so I think spring is a long ways away for us still.
ReplyDeleteWhile the rest of the west coast is covered with snow these last few days, again, after this severe winter, we are still OK, a lot of rain.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by your birds. Sound very interesting and will source them later.
I absolutely love that picture of JJ. The flowers are lovely. How lucky to be able to see them so early in the year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Crow. I really had trouble to stop laughing when I opened up JJ.'s picture!
ReplyDeleteActually he does look at the window in that manner, quite often I spot him doing so! would that mean something?