tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40405216650720465572024-02-20T12:48:38.278-08:00His Eye is on the SparrowBackyard birding at its best, from the Liberty Hill home of Wes and Jan GriffinPapaWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16439012729227069085noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040521665072046557.post-49799954746944399222016-09-14T04:55:00.000-07:002016-09-14T04:55:40.010-07:00Pics of the Day<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quiet season is upon us, but the hummers are still active, obviously preparing for the long journey south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This series caught at the red garden feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Closest I can come is 'Great Southern White' butterfly. What a tag!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These guys were sitting on the garden fence wire about five feet from each other, thinking about dancing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only clear shot I got of the dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Series of shots at the green garden feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexican sage finally has enough to attract the hummers. Sprinkler was going, so they were enjoying the nectar and the shower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The yard is full of the young hummingbirds, chasing around and generally harassing all other forms of life nearby. Today we get to see the developing bling on the throats of the Black-chinned as well as the Ruby-throated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Juvenile male Black-chinned, showing the beginnings of his purple throat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tried to give my fire bush as much light as possible this year. You can see them coming on in the background of this pic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just wait til next year, I'll show ya some bling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The purple cone flower still draws 'em in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parting shot; Ruby-throated juvenile male, peeking around and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The days of rain have brought in some seasonal visitors, and increased the sightings of the various Herons around the pond. The hummingbirds are maturing, and getting even feistier around the feeders. Enjoy the offering of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My morning glorys have never experienced rain in August, and their owner doesn't even remember the last time that happened either!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember the first time I spied a Blue-gray Gnat-catcher in the yard here. Now the look and the sound are unmistakable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wheezes and flits about looking for gnats and small insects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprised by the visiting Yellow Warbler, pleasantly so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I keep telling you about the Green Herons chasing about the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fine and good, but what if you catch her?!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Young female Painted Bunting and young male Cardinal. The parents said they couldn't date!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young male Ruby-throated will develop a few red throat feathers his first summer. By next summer, he'll be all ruby-red.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same thing with the young male Black-chinned hummer. A few blue chin feathers his first summer. He is very aggressive around the feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But not as aggressive as big daddy Ruby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quite a variety on a very warm Central Texas day. Yet, there was a different feel in the air this morning, and some different birds in the yard and on the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last two mornings there have been multiple large birds on the pond, including two Great Blue Herons, two Green Herons, and a single Yellow-crowned Night Heron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And lookie here, Ruby's back in town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been hearing a Summer Tanager in the woods, but this was a rare visit by a female to our yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we close with a gaggle of female Painted Buntings crowding the feeder, and not a male in sight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plenty of sunshine to light up the camera, and multiple butterflies posing. It was quite warm on the porch today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blue Jays love the peanuts we spread around, and also appreciate the cool water in Jan's bird bath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thrilled to see three different male Painted Buntings today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Multiples sets of Sulfur, Gulf Fritillary and white butterflies today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really worked for this shot. They didn't want to share!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Red glass feeder bathed this hummer in red light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was quite nervous, as there is a very aggressive male Black-chinned that comes from the other side of the feeder to fend others off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it's 100 on the porch, only a dedicated photog would hang out hoping for a capture of a hummer in the bright sunlight. But that's what we do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again back-lit, but a little closer. Never get enough of the Bunting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a Bunting, but most likely an immature male, still getting his colors on. Did I say immature male?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five minutes away from putting up the camera to do some fertilizing, and this hummer shows up at the new green antique bottle feeder in the garden. Made my day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God's glory revealed in His Creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning sunlight on the porch affords me some opportunities with the hummers, and the Red-bellied Woodpecker that has been visiting my yard feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen for his 'cluck-cluck' in the yard tree, and he'll be there. I put out suet cake for him, but he totally ignores it. Oh well, whatever works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning bright sunlight lets me crank the shutter speed way down, or is that up? Anyway, allowing me to freeze frame that wing action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rare pause to rest those busy wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all of a sudden you realize that in your frame there is a very colorful fellow out there beyond. I think his disheveled look tells me he's still working on his grooming skills. Probably an adolescent!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started out a pleasant Saturday morning on the porch, with blessings by the doubles. It ended up a scorcher, but that also means full sunlight on my favorite subjects. Enjoy the variety of our Saturday from the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first double blessing came with the twin fawns with Mom in the meadow beyond the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surveying the scene, I realized the Red-shouldered Hawk was about 20 feet overhead, and I thought I heard him licking his chops as he gazed at the group below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a few clicks to the right and down, the Yellow-crowned Night Heron was at the edge of the pond, looking for his own breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not long after that appearance, the male Painted Bunting showed up at the old church feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as I spied him, his twin was on the scene, and immediately came to the globe feeder closest to the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they took their sweet time, allowing me to shoot up all the capacity available on the photo chip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later in the day, a female Black-chinned guarding the feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also doubled up on the butterflies today, with the Tiger Swallowtail joining the Gulf Fritillery enjoying the purple cone flowers and zinnias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This view shows that this guy was operating with quite a handicap, a large chunk of his lower right wing was missing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In spite of missing part of his wing, he seemed to navigate quite handily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few parting shots at the end of the day; hummers going for all the offerings in the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Closing out with our Black-chinned that has the perennial bad hair day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Maybe he's a teen-ager!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heating up to normal around, in for a streak of 100 degree days. Just keep the sprinklers going, and the feeders full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The garden needed just one more antique bottle hummingbird feeder, and Winkley's had a color I did not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spent quite a few frames trying to catch this Sulfur butterfly in flight. Talk about the 'Elusive Butterfly of . . . '</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A beautiful afternoon on the porch provided this wide variety of visitors to the feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mama deer was about fifteen feet outside my yard fence, closer than usual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black-chinned hummer was guarding the feeder closely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caught the Northern Cardinal at the top of the morning glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Painted Bunting, and daddy DID come around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She kept looking, and looking, and looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I realized what she was looking at!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my feeder 'schemes'; lots on the stones and walkways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Papa Painted Bunting came around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But he got photo bombed by the female Cardinal. You girls!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sunny Sunday afternoon with lots of time to hang out on the porch and watch for hummers and buntings. Did well on the hummers, not so on the buntings. But a Painted came to a close feeder to the porch, so promises of future captures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will be checking on this one, as I don't remember seeing him before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watching for intruders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No interlopers allowed around here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mama has found a treat she likes growing on the edges of the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And everywhere that Mama went, the fawn was sure to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Male and female Green Herons on the pond today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She discovered a zinnia hiding among the purple cone flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They seem to prefer zinnias over the purple cone flower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'll go over here, far from your peering camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nice little rosy reflection on his breast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">figure out what they are!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quite a variety in the yard and across the pond this afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprised this morning by the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, and the fawn across the pond. Only got a shot of the Heron.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Female Painted Bunting. Where's yore daddy?!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know dragon flies like to eat gnats? He's blurry, but on the lower right, feasting on the swarm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll call her the matriarch. Female Red-shouldered Hawks are larger than males, and the younger ones definitely have more brown on the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wren with my favorite song, Bewick's Wren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This mama Blue Jay has been foraging a lot in the yard lately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caught the Black-chinned hummer over in the salvia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He flashed me just a little purple before heading my way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continued glorious weather with bright sunny cool mornings allow a little porch time photography before heading to the office. Beautiful sunny afternoons offer the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to get along for a little breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just stay cool, we'll all be alright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, YOU stay cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morning glories in the middle of the yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one a different variety coming up in the near bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And an afternoon of catching the Ruby at the garden feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hummer nest grew, and we finally got to see Buntings, always the delight of the pilgrimage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Indigo Buntings were so numerous at Butch's carousel feeder, I was tempted to get a shot with all six boxes full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Papa Eastern Bluebird was a faithful watchmen. I re-positioned hoping for a better shot, but they didn't like me so close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What started out indiscernible as a nest, became a recognizable lump on the branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First time a Painted Bunting visited me down at the 'Sanctuary' on the East Frio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cropped 'Sanctuary' view; place of worship, and peace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A diligent worker sees results!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now here's a reason to spend more time at Camp Live Oak, documenting the process!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green Kingfisher dropped by to say, see ya next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such a blessing to enjoy these birds on our annual Frio pilgrimage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, we seem to have a nesting bird theme working on this trip. Every walk out through the brush brought another set of its own treats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Blue Grosbeak, along with the Indigo Buntings and Painted Buntings, were active at Butch and Joyce's feeder close to the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sitting down at the 'Sanctuary' on the East Frio, noticed this gal returning to the same spot on the cypress branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hardly think she was admiring her work, but she did sit there for a second before flying off again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spied the Eastern Bluebird and got this shot, not realizing there was a Black-chinned hummer on the next branch. Earlier I had seen the hummers chasing a Summer Tanager around the river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later I observed Papa signal Mama to come on safely to the nest. When done they both left, and wouldn't come back if I was too close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found where the Indigo Buntings were hanging out in the woods. At the same time noticed the Owner of Camp Live Oak, this Red-shouldered Hawk, looking for some lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cliff Swallows that build under the 83 bridge north of Leakey were gathering mud for their nest building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our trip to the Frio to greet the migrating birds was filled with the most incredible weather we have ever experienced in a Texas Spring. And the birding was just as excellent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Butch says this Golden-fronted Woodpecker is very bold around his porch-side feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a few steps down the path to the river holds a veritable forest of thistle flowers. This one is being explored by a couple of bees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know the call of the White-eyed Vireo well enough to just sit down and wait it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My patience paid off as it moved closer and closer, providing a better shot with each move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it flew right at me and perched on a nearby limb, I realized its nest was about four feet above my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Green Kingfisher graced us with his presence down at the river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was flying back and forth, then I realized that there were two of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They positioned themselves on opposite sides of the river and had a stare-down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another call that is distinctive, the Summer Tanager. Only this guy was young, and hardly got all of his syllables out. But he still gave me a pose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never tire of the hummingbirds around the garden, and happy to have the migrating Blue-winged Teal couple hanging for a few more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well we know where she's been stickin' HER snout!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lit up like a depot stove! Would it burn my finger if I could touch it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoping for a morning shot in the sun. Stay tuned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day started well spending time with the Grand gurlz on the porch. Mercedes looked out at the pond and exclaimed, "What is THAT?!!" The Yellow-crowned Night Heron was in the dead tree close to our side of the pond, and provided us with some entertaining moves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But first, spied this Blue-winged Teal on the pond just before the big rains started this weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then he started to rise up. I'm thinking he's gonna fly, or sneeze!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then slams it down and sends the feathers in quite an array.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruby-throated real real close to the end of the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the Ruby-throated female wanting to get at that feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rainy, cloudy Saturday didn't do much for catching those hummers in mid-flight, but that doesn't mean they weren't active in the garden. Ruby and Black-chinned did a lot of perching and flashing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The White-crowned Sparrows still hanging with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black-chinned flashing me a little purple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caught Ruby in the waning Lady Banks Rose, lookin' the other way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tryin' to catch all five of them in one pic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proof that he doesn't need sunlight to make that throat glow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the rain is making the Carolina Jessamine put on another bloom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoying having the hummers come to the feeder at the office. Always provides a nice break. Dan would say more like work provides a nice break from watchin' the birds!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm thinking she's happy to have a place to perch after the long trip from down south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another day for the record book in terms of beauty and weather. And always good to make a run to Darwin and Nelda's lake getaway, where I can always count on getting a good bird shot. This time a Roadrunner in bluebonnets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White-crowned Sparrow still hangin' in the yard. Guess it just hasn't got warm enough yet around here for him to head north.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made a run with our church group to a friends house on Lake Buchanan, viewing the bluebonnets, and then bbq at Cooper's Llano. We spied this guy just outside the fenceline. There are wildflowers filling the shoreline just now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we caught a few bluebonnets as our background. Mr. Roadrunner was not impressed nor intimidated by my presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A female Black-chinned hummer stopped by the office for a short photo-shoot in the bright sunlight. Enjoy.</span></div>
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PapaWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16439012729227069085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040521665072046557.post-79335183605197993702016-04-03T19:13:00.000-07:002016-04-03T19:13:42.237-07:00Pics of the Weekend<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weekend will be rated as two of the most beautiful days of 2016, regardless of what happens the rest of the year. Enjoy pics from the porch, yard and garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It had been 39 degrees during Friday night, so I was not up to hanging out on the porch early Saturday. But I put on my foul-weather birding gear, and was rewarded with this early visitor to the garden feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not two of my favorite birds, but did want to show off the Lady Banks Rose, as it has been a few years since she had a good Spring showing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now here is a worthy subject to be photo'd in the Banks Rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a shaft of late day light for this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Amaryllis has never put on a show like this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We close with the Red-bellied Woodpecker and his evening catch, a fat juicy worm, just like in the movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring activity in the yard, flora, and fauna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady Banks rose took her time, but came on the best she's done in years. The hummers still like to use her as a perch to watch the feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Late sun catching a Black-chinned at one of the porch feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Amaryllis is really happy, never did that before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's showing off, putting on a display hoping to impress a skirt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attracted by my ruby red glass.</span></div>
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