I had no idea.

I was able to capture several images of a Red-bellied Woodpecker this afternoon. I had no idea which photo to post. I chose this one,

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Brought

Yesterday afternoon brought unsettled weather. There were several sleet showers, one of which left this BB-sized evidence of its passing.

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Tilt and soar.

We have looked forward to the Turkey Vultures’ return. It is good to see this first one return, and we look forward to watching them tilt and soar for the next several months.

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This Downy Woodpecker is a regular visitor to my feeders.

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Thank you to all of my visitors and especially the newer visitors and followers.

I will very rarely write about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, events, personalities, which revolve around what is happening in the first half of 2020. There are many, many sources for news (and so-called news) about this terrible affliction; sources for facts (which may or may not be facts); for places to find opinions, informed and otherwise.

This is a place for a little respite, a little calm, perhaps a little tranquillity in the midst of all that is going on. It seems to me that many of us, most of us, perhaps almost all of us need a little respite, a little calm, a little tranquillity, a little pleasure, from all of the upheaval in our lives. I need such a place.

This is and will continue to be that kind of place.

 

Keeps an eye.

Although Lucy is always ready for a game of Chuck-it!, she still keeps an eye on things.22B6E2BD-74AB-4228-A974-953B21522D41_1_201_a

 

Words fail.

Mere words fail to describe how lovely these crocuses are.

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Perched

This male American Goldfinch in molt briefly perched on the shepherd’s crook before dropping down to the nyger seed feeder.

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Glorious

It has been a glorious early spring day. Full sun, not a cloud in the sky, Bella Luna rising in the afternoon.

A good day to be alive.

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