I was out in the front yard in early April taking a picture of the crazy blooming gardenia bush. The smell was amazing. It was early in the morning and I saw some movement across our driveway and turned around to see the below.
The turkeys were just cruising across the yards. I caught them with my phone as they walked across my neighbor’s driveway.
Hummingbirds started showing up at the end of March. For the last 2 years it was mid-April before they came. I saw one buzzing around the shrimp plant and put the feeder up. The first few days I saw a male with his ruby throat blazing with red. Since then I have only seen females.
A doe was feeding just outside the back door right before dark. I quietly opened the door and took the above standing in the doorway. I was afraid if I walked out I would spook her. I haven’t seen any deer coming through the back in a while since this time.
I was replanting some pots in the back when I saw something on the bird bath out of the corner of my eye. I thought I must have been dreaming. A prothonotary warbler in my back yard? I was sitting on the pavers and looked over at my camera on the chair near the door. I knew if I got up it would leave. So I got up and it did leave but I sat in my chair really still with my camera and about 15 minutes later it showed up again. He spent a few minutes taking a bath and then left. What a beauty!
While I was sitting in the chair a northern parula also stopped by.
As well as a house finch.
The tufted titmouse got a bath right after the prothonotary warbler left.
There wasn’t any rain for weeks and it was so hot. Even the bluebirds were stopping by almost every day for a bath.
One morning I looked out the back window and saw a turtle walking across the golf course. He was heading for a busy street instead of turning right towards the other pond so I ran out with a towel and grabbed him and put him closer to the pond. There wasn’t anywhere for him to go even if he crossed that street without getting hit.
We had some new butterflies in the backyard on the big oak tree. A painted lady and a polygonia.
A lizard showing off for the ladies.
Those creepy spiky caterpillars that were all over the backyard a few weeks earlier turn into the above. A tussock moth.
No clouds for weeks. Sunset from the front yard.
