Month: April 2023

Due to warm spring temps

all that is left of Winter:

two little snow piles.

This is all the snow that remains at my place.

Morning snow swirling

bitter cold winds are howling

  Not wolf’s melody

I’m catching up on some haiku that was done several years ago and never posted.

Yellow-rumped Warbler

White throat makes it a Mrytle

a springtime beauty

There are two subspecies of Yellow-rumps – which are often referred to as “butter butts’.
The Mrytle has a white throat…much less common in my area, but definitely not a rarity.

The Audubon’s has a yellow throat…these are the most common in my area.  Today, we saw over 60.

Today’s visitors

a flock of Marbled Godwits

Love migration time.

Against a blue sky

Yellow-headed Blackbirds flash

colors of Spring.

Hunting same meadow

a female Mountain Bluebird

has returned this Spring..

Some White-faced Ibis

flying in front of mountains

counted ninety-eight.

Click on the photo and make it bigger. These are some of my neighborhood mountains.

Legs and nesting birds

Man and Nature competing

Too many people.

Told to stay in place

Waiting for mother’s return

Three dutiful cubs

We ran across these three lion cubs in Samburu on one of my safaris.  The cubs had apparently been told to stay where they were until their mother returned..  When we drove back out in the afternoon we came across the mother headed back to her cubs.  She made low lion sounds and the cubs came running…..

Love the migration

Each day a new visitor

Great Egret today.