Finally, a robin came to visit! We’ve been hearing them, and occasionally seeing them, at Oakland Nature Preserve for a month or two. But unlike last year, we’re not seeing much of them at the house. So I snapped this picture through my dirty window as proof that this guy really did come by…
Robin
Birds Seen Today – Painted Bunting, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Pine Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black and White Warbler, American Kestrel, Red-Shouldered Hawk, Gray Catbird, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Eastern Pheobe, Osprey, Blue Jay, Cardinal, Red-Wing Blackbird
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Great Blue Heron
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Downy Woodpecker (Peek-a-boo!)
Pine Warbler
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Painted Bunting
Downy Woodpecker
Gray Catbird
Normally I don’t like spiders, but there is something neat about seeing such detail in a tiny one perched on a pretty rose. :)
We had a hard freeze this week, but most of the plants got through OK. My roses are fine. It actually motivated me to finish clearing plants to prepare for the roses that I’m going to plant in about a month. Now I just have to finish deciding which ones! Is it February 15 yet?
Spider on rose