Yeah, when the blood is up it is remarkable how single-minded they can get. I once watched two male Allen’s Hummingbirds get into an aerial fight that led to them them falling to the ground, go tumbling down a hillside tangled up with each other and then continue beating each other up once they got to the bottom. Just incredibly bellicose little birds.
And here I thought it was only the ruby-throats that were total a-holes, lol.
Ditto. We had four days of rain over Christmas and two of those days had high temps of 54F. We’ve got green grass, swelling buds on trees and shrubs and more. I’m kinda worried about how many of these plants will be harmed if we get a deep freeze.
Yesterday and the two days previous – wild turkeys! four of them trucking across (what passes for) our front yard. My wife thinks they’re a family. They saw me poke my head up to the window and it was every bird for himself. They cut through the back yard of the next door neighbors heading for the woodsy area behind our properties. A squirrel sitting on our fence froze in place, watching them go, like he’d never seen turkeys before; what a maroon.
Today in nature I saw…
…a bee on our hellebores. C’mon man, this is England - on the third of January?
It has been very mild. Global warming? Hmmmm.
j
We have (American) robins here still. That never used to happen. They’d head out in November and not come back until April. I just saw one sipping water at the birdbath yesterday.
Taken from my deck this morning.
Wow! Great shot.
Yeah, that’s …well, gorgeous might not be the right word. Amazing though.
Thanks, both of you.
I specifically didn’t embed the photo, because I thought that “Bunny. It’s what’s for dinner!” might be a trigger for some folks.
Yeah, breathtaking shot!
On a more mundane note, it snowed just a little bit yesterday, and since then has been very cold for about 24 hours. As a result we woke up this morning able to clearly see the fox tracks across our front and back yard (is that the correct American English?). I think it’s remarkable that they are so consistent in their routes. Looks like pretty heavy traffic too.
j
Perfect. Your yard sounds lovely.
Very nice! Note that that’s an immature Cooper’s Hawk, notorious as bird specialists. But they will happily take rabbits and rodents if the opportunity presents itself.
Wild turkey tracks in the snow, back in my woods.
We went out to dinner last night and The Herd was in the front yard (9 whitetail deer). They didn’t leave until we were halfway down the driveway.
Yesterday on the drive home I saw a hawk dive straight down onto the freeway median, and take off with a rodent.
He’s on the city payroll!
Today it was a red-headed woodpecker. They’re thick around here. This is their ‘training tree’.
Paul Bunyan could play that as a flute!
We have a similar tree with the holes being more oval (longer north/south). In our case it is a pileated woodpecker tree (one of my favorite birds).