This bulb returned this year and bloomed just in time for Easter. We are no experts, but we think this is an amaryllis. If you know better, please straighten us out! Looks like I need to plant a few more if it will make this show in a drought.
The first week of spring this Painted Bunting showed up at the office. Good timing.
One day we had two males, and that is a first.
The female is the greenest bird we get around here.
Back at the house, the Green Heron is back and making a racket around the pond. I'm curious to see where it is nesting. At times he comes up to the oak nearest the house, and it's kinda hard to focus through the branches.
The Black-crested Titmouse is a year-round regular, just so nervous it is difficult to get a picture. But sometimes, he pauses just long enough. . .
About the same time the Bunting showed up, the Black-chinned Hummingbird did as well.
I got just enough sun to get him to flash me a little purple.
Say hello to a traveler just passin' through. This is a Baltimore Oriole, and caused some excitement at the office when he showed up.
This House Finch looks like he's been munchin' on some red berries.
The White-crowned Sparrow was absent all winter, and showed up just in time to head back north.
We had a bunch of 3-4 males in the yard for a while just as spring was getting a start.
A rare sighting of a Blue Grosbeak in the yard in Liberty Hill.
For a short time we had a number of Indigo Buntings in the yard as well.
Very rare in deed, and I don't expect to see them any more this year. But it was a treat to have them for a while.
A returning summer regular is the White-eyed Vireo. His call is unique and unmistakeable, but rarely does he get close enough to show. Gotta go hunt him down.
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