Wildlife at Home, the Wetlands and Lakeside Park

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...

Berries are the theme for this post. Partway up the kingbirds tree, this little chipmunk decided to take a break. Seemingly out of no'where, it produced a red berry. One second its hands were empty and the next it was munching on the berry. Perhaps from its cheek pouch: One of the chipmunks cousins, a grey squirrel was also enjoying the bountiful supply of berries around at the moment. The mulberry tree is still attracting a lot of attention from the birds and squirrels: This young Baltimore Oriole was also in the same mulberry tree when I first saw it, before it moved over to this maple tree: I have decided that it is an oriole and not a flycatcher. The colors are way too strong and it lacks the obvious head crest of the flycatchers in these photos: Lastly, no berries, but a night heron hiding out in a willow tree. I really like how well hidden it is, with just its eye peering out: Copyright  ©  wildlakeside.blogpot.com 2019 Scott Atkinson All Right...