WoodSong

We had a most beautiful visitor today- one we haven’t seen on our property for way too long. The oddity is Evening Grosbeaks travel in large mixed focks, but this bright fella is alone. I don’t usually take feeder images, but I’m still very weak - it was grand just to see him […]

‘With colors of red, black and white-
Striking at rest- striking in flight’
Two males are having a territorial battle out back today.. this is the most aggressive of all woodpeckers. They glow in the bright sun as the fallout of wingeds continues..the greatest show on earth.. and then some.

We’ve had a HUGE fallout of migrants today- among the 17 ‘new’ arrivals I’ve heard/seen so far arriving on strong south-westerly warm winds (the best for pushing birds northward) is my most favorite bird - our first male Ruby-throated hummingbird. He’s drinking nectar, I’m happy dancing.
Ahh, just heard an Ovenbird and dashed into the […]

BIRD SONG
Laura E. Richards
The robin sings of willow-buds,
Of snowflakes on the green;
The bluebird sings of Mayflowers,
The crackling leaves between;
The veery has a thousand tales
To tell to girl and boy;
But the oriole, the oriole,
Sings, “Joy! joy! joy!”
The pewee calls his little mate,
Sweet Phoebe, gone astray,
The warbler sings,
“What fun, what fun,
To tilt upon the spray!”
The […]

“Trees are the earths’ endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
(Rabindranath Tagore)
It’s hard to believe we’re already into May, yikes. We made another long and tiresome trip to Ann Arbor earlier in the week, and I wish I’d at least stuck my small Canon g6 in my purse. There’s not much I enjoy […]

Our resident American goldfich males once again look like little bright lemon drops- their songs are a constant each day outside my bedroom widow.. they’re gorgeous in their breeding plumage.
Lots of avain activity this week- b.c. chickadees are now nesting in one of our baffled nestboxes and the woodpecker tribe is displaying and banging away […]