Photo 06-10-2009

Last pictures... I guess you can call them miscellaneous....

Photo 06-09-2009

Not many birds to see this weekend, but the dragonflies were plentyful... so I decided to try and take some good pictures of them....

Photo 06-08-2009

A couple more from this weekend.... the spiders are coming again... I'm always surprised with the big size difference between the male and the female. The female is a lot bigger than the male. The top two pictures are of the golden silk orbweaver

This last picture is from a banded garden spider as far as I can tell.

Photo 06-06-2009

I volunteered this morning at the Nature Center and it was beautiful, not too hot, not too many mosquitos and we got a lot of planting done. No pictures of that (had to work too hard!LOL) but I did have time to go into the park a little later and take some flower pictures.....

And also a picture of a palmtree that I was playing with....

Photo 06-05-2009

Just some pictures of all the youngsters that have been coming to our feeders..... mourning doves and house sparrows. Sometimes there are about 10 sparrows and 5 mourning doves at the same time at the feeders. It's a lot of seed that gets eaten in a week!

Photo 06-04-2009

Just a couple of flowers to brighten your day!

Photo 06-03-2009

Couple from last saturday.... my husband busy volunteering at the nature center. The big tractor was broken, so they had to use the hand mower...... He was covered with grass!!!

Photo 06-02-2009

Guess who came to visit this morning......... a young male red cardinal. Dad must have approved of our feeder yesterday!

Photo 06-01-2009

I was so excited this morning...... another bird at my feeder..... a real common one, but when you only see sparrows and morning doves then a red cardinal is really a treat!

Excuse the bad quality of the pictures, but I have to clean the windows!!

Photo 05-31-2009

This poor fellow is blind on one eye, but was enjoying the sunshine in one of the trees (near the bird feeders!!).

Photo 05-30-2009

What a joy of seeing this yellow crowned heron posing for me.... at least that's what I thought. After looking at the pictures I realize he's just falling asleep!!!!

Photo 05-29-2009

Look what I saw this morning... It still amazes me to see a squirl in a palmtree.... for me those two don't go together. So I ran back in and take a picture. While I'm having my camera out I decide to take some pictures of the house finch nest. Some crazy people thought it would be nice to take the nest down to see if there were any eggs in and did not put it back in place. Poor mom finch could not get onto the nest. We got the nest back up and within 5 minutes mom was back on it. Hopefully those crazy people will stay away from it now!!

Photo 05-28-2009

My little lady posing for me!

And another little visitor of our feeder.....

Photo 05-27-2009

I't really discoverin gmy new lens... this is awesome. I can take pictures that I could not take before... this bird was way up in the tree and I could not even see what it was.... but I can take a picture of it!!