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Cooper’s…

29 Thursday Aug 2024

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was on the deck reading last evening when a Cooper’s Hawk flew onto the ledge about six feet in front of me…

moved too fast for me to get a photo, but this is where it was…

it flew to the top of the garage, sat there for a few minutes, and then on to the neighbour’s yard…

hope the little birds are okay…

activity…

22 Thursday Jul 2021

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hot and partly overcast today, but not nearly as smokey…

and lots of activity in the garden…

must have counted six squirrels at one time and took a few pictures of different ones eating… none of the gray squirrels wanted to have their photos taken, lol…

there was also a great deal of bird action… dozens of house sparrows, numerous finches and chickadees, as well as at least one nuthatch…

such a wonderful way to spend the day;-)…

the water lily bloom continues to open with the light and close as the evening arrives…

swallow…

10 Monday Jun 2019

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turned the hose on to top up the pond again yesterday… maybe the wind has been evaporating the water more quickly because it wasn’t particularly hot…

then I got focussed on a few other things… was on my way to the garage to go grocery shopping and decided to check out the poppies before leaving…

when I got over there I realized that the water was still going… turned it off just as it was going to swallow up the bridge…

yikes… that was close…