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POTD 5/10/25
HUDDLE DOVE - After several days of warm weather - a cold spell has this Mourning Dove hunkered down against the chill.
POTD 5/9/25
DIGGING A NEST HOLE - A Chickadee excavates a nest cavity in a dead tree on the beaver pond. Chickadees are cavity nesters - and will use old woodpecker holes or excavate their own in soft or rotten wood, as this one was doing.
POTD 5/8/25
TWO GIRLS FOR EVERY BOY - For those old enough to remember that at Surf City there were two girls for every boy! The female Orioles are back - with two females staking claim to the jelly feeder and at least two males also around the yard.
POTD 5/7/25
ALL THAT ROSE COLOR - A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak among the red maple tree samaras - the name for the "helicopters" or "whirligigs" that maples shed each Spring.
POTD 5/6/25
THE GIRLS ARE BACK - At least one female Hummingbird is back. We had seen two males for a few days (without getting a photo of them) and this female showed up in the rain yesterday.
