I spent an hour or two run the yard again today (3/28/2020), hoping for new spring migrants. None showed but I obtained some good photos of regular visitors. Here are some of the photos…

I’ve now seen almost as many hummingbird visits to the watercourse in the past week as I saw the entire last season (as I mentioned in my last post)! This is probably the same male Rufous hummingbird… he seems to be addicted to tasking baths. In this case I managed a quick shot at 1/400th of a second, far too slow to stop the wing motion but good enough to provide very good detail on the rest of the hummingbird.

The crows are pairing up and building nests. I think I’ve located the general areas for two of the nests. The crows were agitated this afternoon due to two Bald eagles overflying the area.