I can feel a tinge of cool breeze this morning and the promise of fall being around the corner. I head out to the Bailey Tract.
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| Moon flowers are standing out with their crispness and simple beauty. |
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| Some wispy, free as the breeze, wildflower is swaying me on. |
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| A River slider choosing the pond on the other side - perhaps it looks fresher. |
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| A Mourning Dove feeling at ease as I go by. |
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| A Red-shouldered Hawk watching from afar. |
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| An adult Little Blue Heron having a meal without any competition. |
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| What a nice surprise! A Downy Woodpecker - I never noticed before the light yellow in its feathers. |
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| I'm tempted to say: "The End", however I have more to share.... |
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| A Common Ground Dove - the smallest Dove of them all. |
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| A Mourning Dove sharing space with the Common Ground Dove - a great opportunity to compare them side by side.... |
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| ......and what a nice view! |
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| The Red-bellied Woodpecker came by as well as.... |
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| the Pileated Woodpecker. |
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| Even though I can't provide you with photos of all the species that I came across - let me tell you that I got giddy with excitement as I entered the wooded trail - the songs were numerous and the movements in the trees were aplenty. Here is a Prairie Warbler which stopped long enough for me to capture it, others that were un-photographed, were numerous Ovenbirds, Wrens, Vireos and Gnatcatchers. |
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| and a partridge in a pear tree...LOL....well, this is where my head was at but to be technically correct, these are Mourning Doves. |
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| This trail is deadville during the summer - not so when migration begins and takes us into the winter. |
Ground doves...hope you did not step on any lol. I was wondering why your bird blog was not being updated . For some reason I had to mess around with the site and what to my wonder eyes appeared, but some wonderful....
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