@snoopydawg

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And Dawg

@Socialprogressive

if only briefly
so much color
six great pix

Some butterfly's for the start of spring.
Edit: 1 Blue Morpho, 2 Malachite, 3 Malachite, 4 Monarch, 5 Postman, 6 Postman

@Socialprogressive

Thanks

Some butterfly's for the start of spring.
Edit: 1 Blue Morpho, 2 Malachite, 3 Malachite, 4 Monarch, 5 Postman, 6 Postman

@Daenerys
I've seen lots of pigeons but never a white pigeon. Thanks for the experience.

Got my first loon of the year today.

First blue herons of the year the other day:

sandhill cranes:

This white pigeon has been hanging around by the pond in town where I work for a couple of weeks now:


I don't see any leg bands on it, and someone else said it's just a white rock pigeon.

My coworker saw my camera yesterday and asked "Are you going to take a picture of me?" I said I don't take pictures of humans. That's one way to get them to stop asking!

We were able to start digging in the garden the other day, pulling out last year's stuff at least; now is a good time because the ground is still wet and soft. We have some old dog kennel pannels by one shed I want to tear out and put around the garden; that will keep the critters out of it! (Someone saw a cougar ~15-20 miles from here one day last week )

Happy spring all.

@Daenerys

goes great together ; ).

My coworker saw my camera yesterday and asked "Are you going to take a picture of me?" I said I don't take pictures of humans.

What beautiful birds you see, and how enjoyable it is for us to also see them. Thanks Daenerys.

Got my first loon of the year today.

First blue herons of the year the other day:

sandhill cranes:

This white pigeon has been hanging around by the pond in town where I work for a couple of weeks now:


I don't see any leg bands on it, and someone else said it's just a white rock pigeon.

My coworker saw my camera yesterday and asked "Are you going to take a picture of me?" I said I don't take pictures of humans. That's one way to get them to stop asking!

We were able to start digging in the garden the other day, pulling out last year's stuff at least; now is a good time because the ground is still wet and soft. We have some old dog kennel pannels by one shed I want to tear out and put around the garden; that will keep the critters out of it! (Someone saw a cougar ~15-20 miles from here one day last week )

Happy spring all.

@dystopian

Seeing that hummingbird for the first time 60 years of hard core birding hanging dead must have been a shock.

I love the colour you caught in its feathers, refracted in that singular light and environment.

BR, SD, SP, Daen, all wonderful shots...

In 60 years of hardcore birding, this was a first, right off the back porch the other morning, a dead Black-chinned Hummingbird, male, locked on to the stem it was on. Don't ask me how it died.

Here is a closeup of some of the gorget feathers in the throat. The color is iridescence which is made by refraction, and due to structure, not pigment.

Claretcup Cactus is in bloom now, btw, I hate autofocus.

Yellow Flax

Thanks everyone for all the great posts and comments all week.

It's not us, it's them, and they are nuckinfutz.

@magiamma @magiamma
Nice shot. The green hillside and trees made me think of Ireland when I first looked at it.

Thanks for POT bollox

Wonderful photos everyone.

Doing this from my phone. If it works this is a photo of our last drawing site. There are two deer in the photo