While I'm posting from the camera here are a few of a bluebird couple at the park last week. There's a nest box on a pole along that fence and they were hanging out near it.
Female hummingbird. A male has been coming for about a week (males arrive early to establish territories, females arrive later when food sources are more reliable) but only when it's dark, way before sunrise or well after sunset. This is the first female I've seen this season and this was early morning too but with just enough light for my camera. Welcome back, smol friend!
It doesn’t look like much right now but the handsome green dragon in the garden has finally wakened from sleep. I bought a companion so maybe one could pollinate the other and I could finally get seeds but while it was out on the patio in a plastic pot waiting to be planted, squirrels sheered the new one off at ground level. :-/
Foggy sunrise at the lake last Tuesday.
A yesterday thing that wasn’t aurora related: buttercups by the stream.
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Once again Bridget is exceeding legal cuteness limits.
And these were preceded by her master move of squirming so her head is upside-down looking at you wide-eyed with her toe beans showing. I just couldn’t get the phone ready fast enough.
Bridget for Caturday
A note to people who may be looking for aurora the next couple nights: even if it looks cloudy where you are, take a couple phone pictures of the sky to the north to make sure. When I got up I thought it was cloudy. Luckily I took a couple phone pictures and they picked up the colors.
It turned out that what I *thought* were clouds were the pillars and curtains of the aurora. The lights here in town had made it difficult for me to see the colors so the aurora looked gray like clouds to my naked eyes. I almost went back to sleep!
Also I could see a fogbow from my house because why not? For @srobrien2
The Big Dipper set in aurora colors. We don't usually have aurora. It's the first time I've ever seen it!
From up on the hill.
You may be wondering what’s happening at the gates.
Morning of the 7th of May.
View from a bridge.
I have some things from Tuesday that I meant to post. It was a beautiful morning. [Edit: I removed the video because it turns out I had already posted it.]
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I was lucky enough to see a veery in the woods while walking with @alackofcharacter yesterday. They're one of my favorite woodland thrushes with a magical voice that seems to spiral downward. This one stood still long enough to let me get a clear shot. That hardly ever happens! The little wood near my house hosts at least one breeding pair every summer.
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