Fish Eaters

March 13, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Common Mergansers for Bird Weekly: birds who eat fish primarily.

E-birds

March 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Birds that start with the letter ‘E’ for Bird Weekly Challenge. Featured is an Eastern Kingbird – a summer resident here. The Bald Eagles are regulars, and the odd Great Egret wanders through from time to time.

Feathers of White

February 27, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Featured image is two of the locals. The male Goldeneye and Common Merganser look as if they are dressed up in evening attire. A White-breasted nuthatch enjoying a nibble. All for Bird Weekly, this week’s challenge: birds with white feathers.

Love in Lockdown

February 14, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Everything about a cardinal brings such joy to my day. Chickadees remind me of childhood. These happy visitors love to sing along with me when I call their name. My newest love are the Common Redpolls. So delightful. (There are few birds I don’t love, so when Lisa challenged us to showcase our favourites I […]

‘D’ Bird

February 6, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Downy Woodpecker, Morning Doves, Mallard Ducks. Bird Weekly challenge: birds that start with letter d.

A Suitable Perch

January 30, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An array of wire and fence sitters for Bird Weekly Challenge: Flycatcher, Junco, Kingfisher, Eastern Kingbird, Swallows – at least these are my best guesses, lol.

Brown is the New Black

January 23, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Bird Weekly challenge: birds with brown feathers. Featured is a Chipping Sparrow

Butt End

January 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A Dark-eyed junco and a Downy woodpecker for Bird Weekly’s challenge.

We All Start With ‘C’

January 8, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A cardinal, Common merganser, covy of Common redpoll, a chickadee. For Bird Weekly’s challenge: birds that start with ‘c’.

Wing Envy

January 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bird Weekly challenge is to post photos of birds with long wingspans. Our larger birds have flown south for the winter, but the birds of prey remain, and of course, the Canada geese.

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)

Peachy Keen

Not Everything Is Defined by Age

As a child, I knew no limits, setting out on adventures with never a fear for how I’d find my way back home. Now, nestled in my home, I limit myself to certainties, fearful of risks. Some days, I wonder about that child, and how it would feel to wander freely, and it makes me […]