Saturday, October 20, 2007

Up With the Birds

Back from the bird walk. I can't say we saw anything too exciting. The best was the yellow-rumped warblers and they were all over the place.
Saw flickers, cardinals, downy and red-bellied woodpeckers. Wrens, sparrows of some unknown variety, another cuckoo (just briefly), a couple of hawks (red tail and sharp-shinned), juncos and chickadees. It was cool but not too cool. Here are a couple of pictures:

Near the entrance to the park. There was some mist early in the walk.



We were all very intent. (I'm not in this picture.) Though with the luck we were having we were probably intently scrutinizing some bird that turned out, on close inspection, to be....ta, da...a robin!



Sun through a cedar tree. You really can't tell from this picture, but the tree was still wet from the previous night's rain and the droplets were shimmering in the sun.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be awfully nice if you'd Photoshopped the Gentleman-in-the Blue-Shirt's head so it didn't appear (falsely, I'm sure) as if he were getting a little thin on top.

Rooie said...

Well, Mr. Institute, I'm sure that was just the sun shining off your full head of rich, thick, lustrous hair...it was very glarey out.

Your parents must have been very patriotic!

Anonymous said...

Or could it be the nest of a grebe-crested pileated towhee americanus?