Spring Walk

Despite a colder than normal spring with some trees showing just a hint of green, the longer days and the now more persuasive rays of the sun continue their call for nature to awake. Recently our walks in the wooded areas of local city parks have carried with them the unavoidable expectation of the season.

Bloodroot, so fragile to forces of wind and rain and hear so briefly as if a dream.

A migrating Golden-crowned Kinglet announces the season.

A cloudy cold day is not enough encouragement for the flowers of the Twinleaf to open.

High in a tree this Barred Owl will be impossible to see in a few weeks when the leaves are out.

It’s flower looking tired, it was still exciting to find more evidence of the rare Snow Trillium in a local park.

A migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglet refuses to show its crown but is still a welcome sign of the season.

A Northern Flicker ignores our presence as it works on its nesting cavity.

On a day that’s apparently just warm enough for the insects, an Eastern Phoebe waits.

Arriving a few weeks after the males, a female Redwing Blackbird is entertained by their suitors’ calls.

Sometimes with the expectation of the season comes the unexpected, a Fox Squirrel that appears to be Break Dancing (click on panes for a better view):

Much of what brings real meaning to life are the acquired tastes that must be pursued with intention after just the smallest beginning flicker of interest. In nature, as with most of life’s experiences, the more you look the more you see and then appreciate, becoming richer for it.

Thanks for stopping by.

6 Comments on “Spring Walk”

susanpoozan
April 5, 2022

Excellent photographs, I particularly enjoyed the antics of the fox squirrel.

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- centralohionature
  April 5, 2022
  
  It was very interesting as we’ve never seen a squirrel behave that way before.
  
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New Hampshire Garden Solutions
April 5, 2022

You’ve reminded me that our bloodroot flowers should show any time now.
What a stout looking tail that flicker has. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in that position before. Nice shots!

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- centralohionature
  April 5, 2022
  
  A woodpeckers tail usually looks pretty ragged at the end, but they must be pretty sturdy considering how they are used.
  
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  - New Hampshire Garden Solutions
    April 5, 2022
    
    Yes!
tootlepedal
April 5, 2022

The Golden-crowned Kinglet shot was my favourite. I’ve had itches like the one that that fox squirrel was trying to scratch.

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