Feeding songbirds has the side effect of birds dropping seed throughout our yard, which results in volunteer sunflowers popping up. We generally let them pop up and thrive or not. This volunteer adds cheer to the middle part of the vegetable garden.
Month: September 2017
Silhouetted
A spider and its web are silhouetted against the morning sky.
Dissipates
Light fog disspates during a mild late summer morning.
Soar
The Turkey Vultures will depart soon. I will enjoy watching them soar over our neighbourhood until they do.
Closer
Here is a closer view of one of the Broad-winged Hawks I saw Saturday evening. You can see the distinctive white stripe across the tail as well as the black border on the wings.
I don’t remember ever seeing one before and had get out my hard copy of The Sibley Guide to Birds to identify it. Then I went to its entry at allaboutbirds.org to learn more.
Spectacle, and a question
As I took laundry off the clothesline late this afternoon, a hawk cruised through my peripheral vision. I looked up and there was another. And another. Another, another, on and on, and on. I gawked for a few moments then raced inside, grabbed the camera, and captured the spectacle of many Broad-winged Hawks riding the wind. Finally, a little regretfully, I felt obligated to resume my chore, though I kept looking up.
How many hawks do you count?
Lower
You may want to lower the lights in order to better appreciate this photo of a barn at daybreak.
A little lightning.
Thunderstorms bearing down, hatches are battened. Each dot represents a cloud to ground lightning strike, the ring the thunder ‘sound front’, all overlaid on radar returns. Image from lightningmaps.org.
Brilliant
Brilliant shades and hues herald a new day.
Dusk
As dusk falls on this Saturday Fitzi and I enjoy the evening, serenaded by crickets and Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap featuring Elton John and Billy Joel.
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