Mother’s Day
We set out bright and early on Mother’s Day. It was clear and cold, and we had the woods to ourselves.
We weren’t sure what this bird was. It made no sound, was about the size of a female cardinal, and hawked insects. My daughter and I snapped some photos, and when we got home and looked in the bird book we realized it was a great crested flycatcher. This photo is posted not as an example of a good photo, but as an example of how the camera is an aid to figuring out what things are. It’s a damage-free hunting tool.
Black-throated green warblers were singing around the creek. No great pictures, but we enjoyed seeing them all around, feeding along with some yellow-rumped warblers. Here, the camera magnified something too small and high to see clearly, and enabled me to see its markings. Again, an example of a camera as a tool in nature study, even when the result is not a good photograph.
The glen was lovely, though choked with blown down trees.
The trillium is blooming, along with other vegetation.
On the way home, we observed another mother — a leucistic redtail keeping her chicks warm.
