And we are always doing a whole lot of something close to nothing, it seems (I love Prince). And no, not completely nothing, though I have been slow at processing images (nothing new these days).
However, I was speaking to a good friend and she says she saw this brilliant red bird… I said, “Hey, I think I have pictures of that bird! I’ll post them and you can tell me if it was the same”.
So here we are… the following day and I am only finally getting at it. Today is March 4th, I took these photos on February 27th (2022 if you are reading this post randomly).
So without further ado… here are pictures of a Vermillion Flycatcher and I’ve thrown in a Northern Mocking Bird because I just love them. Plain to look at but, OMG, the multitude of songs is so wonderful!
Brian and I have been walking every morning and this little flycatcher caught my eye the very first day. Who could miss that brilliant flash of red/orange as he flits from tree to tree. He seemed to be living in one of four trees. He appeared almost every morning in the same area near the end of our walk. I think that there were four trees that comprised his entire territory.Who doesn’t enjoy a little bird butt!!It actually took me three days to get any decent photos. I was definitely out of practice.He was quite a distance away, on a golf course, behind a hedge, so the days that we didn’t see him I figured he was dodging golf balls. The hedge is pretty high so I had to stand on my tippy toes and lost him when he would decide to go low or to ground. Did I mention that Brian is very patient with me (but I didn’t stretch that patience enough to ask him to carry a stool for me on our walk), he waits around patiently for me, does bird spotting for me, makes funny noises when I ask him to so a bird will move…that kind of thing.I have more, but will leave you with this final image and move on…Another bird from our walks and one of my favourite birds, the Northern Mocking Bird. I know they are a bit plain looking but they are filled with so many other bird songs that you might think, when listening, that you had a flock of 20 different species of birds out in your yard.When we lived in the Bahamas (1999/2000 era) there was a post in a birding travel brochure. Birders were coming to the island where we lived to see a rare bird ( I was not a birder back then and can’t remember what it was). In the brochure they were advising that to log this particular bird people had to actually see it and not just hear it as the Mocking Bird had already picked up its song. We were lucky enough to have mocking birds in our yard when we lived there and I woke every morning to a cacophony of bird song.
