Spring is slowing springing around here, and that means the return of many of our favorite bird neighbors! We've seen Eastern bluebirds, male and female cardinals, the usual black-capped chickadees and nuthatches, and lots of robins and red-winged blackbirds in the last week. I'm even happy to see the turkey vultures soaring overhead and picking at the occasional roadkill again.
We watched a huge bird resting on the branches yesterday, and thought it just might be a gray heron. But it turns out those are only found in Europe and Asia, so we decided it must be a (much more common) great blue heron instead. Such a big a beautiful bird!
We've seen quite a bit of a tom turkey that looks just like this- both in our backyard and down the road by the pine trees. They are beautiful and fascinating and kind of funny to watch as they strut around and display their feathers.
One morning I watched the one in our backyard chase around two lady friends for a good 20 minutes.
Jason and I had a hard time getting anything done in the hour before we were supposed to leave for spring break because there was a HUGE osprey resting in the trees.
He looked like a porg from all the way over here- see that speck of white in the middle of the tree?
There has been a persistent male red-bellied woodpecker hanging upside down from our birdfeeder lately. It's fun to watch him hop up and down the nearby trees too.
It seems to be arriving even slower than usual, but all of these birds are telling us that surely spring is almost here!
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