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Each Spring day brings tiny miracles, even when it is frosty, cold, wet, and late. I just have to take a walk in my garden to see them.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein
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Still reliving the last winter when it comes to snow-shots - this one has been really disappointing...
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To each and everyone!
(No white winter so far this season, so this shot is from last winter.)
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Merry Christmas to all of you!
Or 'God jul' as we say in Swedish!
By the way - this tree is rather special. It was under this tree, in December 2005, I first met the man who is now my husband!
Red-shouldered Hawks are found throughout Florida, and we always hear their high-pitched "Kee-ah" calls at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. Paul (D-200 Paul) and I saw a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks mating on this trip, but they were fairly high up in a tangle of tree branches. The photos looked like a pile of feathers in a tangle of branches!
I knew this was a female Red-shouldered Hawk because five minutes after this picture was taken, the male hawk flew to her, and mated with her. Unfortunately, the picture I took of that event showed only a mass of feathers and was obscured by branches.
The green leaves in this picture belong to "air plants", plants that grow on other plants, not harming their "host". According to the Corkscrew Swamp Audubon field guide, there are twelve species of air plants seen along the Corkscrew board walk, many of which are listed as "endangered" or "threatened" species.
Seasonal capture of alert eastern gray squirrel sitting upon a tree branch. Imaged in Dec. of 2021.
Visitors: Invited to check out my photostream & albums for various seasonal images of wildlife/scenics/florals.
This feathery friend followed me along the canal bank chirping a beautiful song.
Created using Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
Treescape on a freshly felled ash branch still decorated with silvery green antlers of oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri) touched with morning frost viewed through a macro lens. The exposed area of the tree trunk shows elaborate ‘carving artwork’ of the Ash Bark Beetle larva of Hylesinus species (hard to tell which one of the 3 native UK species was a culprit, possibly H. fraxini). Extensive thinning is taking place in the woodland to help the strongest and healthiest trees. Primrose Hill Community Woodland. Bath, BANES, England, UK.
A Blue Jay takes off after not finding any insects in the hollows of the branch.
Exeter, Ontario
Canada
Mésange à tête noir - Poecile atricapilius -
Black-capped chickadee
Saint-Jacques, New/ Nouveau-Brunswick.
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I came back out here after spotting a Cinnamon Squirrel last week and I was thrilled to find her again!
Exeter, Ontario
Canada
Painted buntings are divided into an eastern and a western population. The eastern population lives only in the coastal regions of northern Florida up to North Carolina. The population in the west ranges from Louisiana and Texas up to Kansas and winters mainly in Mexico and southwards to Panama, while those from the east winter in southern Florida, the Florida Keys being one of these locations, and occasionally in Cuba and the Bahamas. The western population breeds in a habitat consisting of partially open areas with scattered brush, shrubbery and riparian thickets. The eastern birds choose scrub communities and the edges of maritime hammocks. The winter habitats are similar to each other, being tropical savanna and tropical forest margins.
Painted buntings are one of the most spectacularly colored and visually impressive birds in the United States and are the only U.S. bird with a blue head along with red underparts.
The French word ‘nonpareil’, is used for this species. It means “without equal,” and refers to the bird’s splendid plumage.
I found this one along with five others including males and females in my backyard. They have spent the Winter with me in Polk County, Florida, over the last several years.
They left again a few days ago. Hope they have a safe trip home and look forward to their return next year.