Favored Sunning Spot
I'm getting a little behind with my posts, so I've decided to merge two days into one post. I'll start with yesterday, which was so overcast that many of my pictures did not turn out. The morning started with a family of wrens at the stream end of Lakeside Park. The wrens and a great crested flycatcher were complaining like crazy about something in the undergrowth which I never saw, but which was obviously cause for concern. The great blue herons were there in numbers. It didn't seem to matter where I was at the lake, the herons were there. Two in the branches of a tree on the opposite side of the stream caught my attention. One with its neck fully outstretched, which looked really bizarre among all of the dead branches:
Here is one of the better photos which (as my subject was too close for my telephoto lens) was taken with my go-everywhere camera, a Canon Powershot SX 720:
Of most interest that morning was a little green hummingbird which was being attracted by some orange, trumpet shaped flowers, low down in the undergrowth. It rested for a while on the dead branches above the flowers. I did take quite a few photos, but unfortunately they turned out to be just too dark and grainy.
Moving on to this morning which was gloriously sunny and quite warm, I had decided to try for some presentable photos of the hummingbird. Surely, it would have to frequent the same flowers this morning. Unfortunately it did not, but as I sat there on a fallen tree trunk, I was given the opportunity to take a decently sharp photo of a song sparrow:
I moved on to the turtle nesting area where surprisingly, the mulberry trees are still providing a plentiful supply of fruit for the birds and squirrels:
There are some large tree trunks stacked on their side, beside the trail and near the start of the lake. They always catch the sun in the morning and they are a favored sunning spot of the chipmunk. I can usually find it here at some point in the morning:
I decided to sit at the bench for a while before leaving. I was mesmerized by the young kingfishers playfully chasing each other over the lake. Way at the far side of the lake, I caught sight of the red-tailed hawk which I'd heard calling in the distance all morning. It was time to leave though.
Copyright © wildlakeside.blogpot.com 2019 Scott Atkinson All Rights Reserved.
Here is one of the better photos which (as my subject was too close for my telephoto lens) was taken with my go-everywhere camera, a Canon Powershot SX 720:
Of most interest that morning was a little green hummingbird which was being attracted by some orange, trumpet shaped flowers, low down in the undergrowth. It rested for a while on the dead branches above the flowers. I did take quite a few photos, but unfortunately they turned out to be just too dark and grainy.
Moving on to this morning which was gloriously sunny and quite warm, I had decided to try for some presentable photos of the hummingbird. Surely, it would have to frequent the same flowers this morning. Unfortunately it did not, but as I sat there on a fallen tree trunk, I was given the opportunity to take a decently sharp photo of a song sparrow:
I moved on to the turtle nesting area where surprisingly, the mulberry trees are still providing a plentiful supply of fruit for the birds and squirrels:
There are some large tree trunks stacked on their side, beside the trail and near the start of the lake. They always catch the sun in the morning and they are a favored sunning spot of the chipmunk. I can usually find it here at some point in the morning:
I decided to sit at the bench for a while before leaving. I was mesmerized by the young kingfishers playfully chasing each other over the lake. Way at the far side of the lake, I caught sight of the red-tailed hawk which I'd heard calling in the distance all morning. It was time to leave though.
Copyright © wildlakeside.blogpot.com 2019 Scott Atkinson All Rights Reserved.
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