Month: March 2014

I think it is spring

March 24, 2014

I think it is Spring – though there is still a cold wind – the daylight lasts longer. Some of the bulbs are emerging, redwing blackbirds have been seen (though not photographed), Finlay is out in the sun chasing his ball, and as it is USA, St Patrick’s Day has been seen to be done. … More I think it is spring

Tongue hanging out

March 6, 2014

Literally “tongue hanging out” as in the photo of an unfortunate dead red-bellied woodpecker. Kim thought that it must have crashed itself into glass or some such accident, at any rate found frozen and as life extinct she brought it to the bird walk for “show and tell”. Such beauty, the feathers, the markings, all … More Tongue hanging out