Birds and Butterflies

 I had fun with this turkey.  He would duck down and a sec. later come back up see me duck, raise, duck etc finally I had to move on.

 A downey

 Great Spangled Fritillary one of a very few butterflies this year

 An Eyed Brown

Almost missed this very Scarlet Tanager.

The Last week

A Northern Flicker finds a big hole

This Hawk is being harassed

This wild Tiger Lily is growing where it wants to be

If I only had a match to light this thing

A deer

 the raspberries are getting ripe

Deer on the move

A spring day in the sun

 Eastern Towhee

 Killdeer doing it's best to distract us from it's nest

 Painted turtle sun himself

 Redtail hawk was being harassed by the other bird

 Tiger Swallowtail feeds

Wisteria covers this hillside

Last of the Trillium

 Grandaflora

 Purple

First of the Mandrake flowers

 White

"Not all who wander are lost" a couple are out there Geocaching

Trillium

 It's been a while sorry, but here are a couple Trillium found on the trail

Spring ... probably

 The first flower a Coltsfoot.  Very surprising given the weather.  It was about 60°F today

When I went to take the Coltsfoot the ground moved ... a Gartersnake was a real surprise.

A bunch of unusual birds as they past by

 Snow geese in a corn field.  Not normal in our fields but usually several miles east.

 The first Skunk cabbage about a month late

 The Hooded Merganser with the big head looks a bit miffed at the other guy attracting the female

 The big "do"

 The female fluffing up

 No water on the lake yet.

 A Snow goose swims past the sleeping Red heads

A Buffelhead and more resting RedHeads