Thursday, February 10, 2011

Black Necked Stilt



pic up is from Merced Wildlife Refuge last Monday afternoon, Black Necked Stilt...pics, I think, I have from other visits, but tonight id, and so a 'new bird', and very pretty Bird!....After Breakfast, paddled over to the Hummock Ponds....Nine Mallards napping....and napping under the Oaks, Three Does and One Fawn...and over by the Intersection, Mama Doe and Two Male Fawns (Two Top Pine Meadow family), checked mail in the Village, and returned through the Oaks...sighted Hawk, Redshoulder, Cedar!, fly to the Elm...followed, and was close, and couldn't see Cedar--new glasses really are a problem, the polycarbonate lenses can see details okay, but it's all a bit like when the binocs are not the right distance apart...maybe my eyes will adjust....anyway, Cedar flew off above the Oaks, and I lost sight by the Suburbs...returned through the Oaks...Three Does and Fawn still napping...Acorn Woodpeckers, Ravens, Hundred Blue Jays....sunny blueblue warm...at Lunch: sat awhile at the Ozone Cottonwoods....One Acorn Woodpecker call, Raven pair high overhead....quiet...curioius to see which will be the first Springtime Bird(s) to arrive, and when usual Birds like Ouzel will come back....

Link of the Day: (there are 58 clips at this youTube site TheMusicOfNature, and veryvery cool!!)

youTube clip: Winter Wren Portrait

1 comment:

Jeannette said...

lovely bird...lovely picture...thank you or the sharing of beauty