June

JUNE 2025 (Reverse chronological this time)

May 2025

May 2025

May 1

May 2, Red-header woodpecker in slow-motion.
Shot with GoPro 11 Black at high speed but I don't think I'm getting the best results in either Pinnacle Pro 23 or Kdenlive. I wanted to capture what it looks like when flying away, which is usually how I see it. Youtube link (in case video doesn't work above).

Ma Bluebird hard at work on the second nest of the season.

May 10

May 9

May 19, Gray Catbird's meow.

My first ever AI* video. May 20 at Kent Lanes open mic. The audio is a bit fake too, I wasn't pleased with my playing and attempted to make it suck less by adding 2nd guitar the next day at home. 
*I used an online thing called DeeVid. I thought it did pretty well animating a static image.

U.S. Blues (No fake video or audio edits on this one)

May 22, male Red-bellied woodpecker. 

May 22, the lovely male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

May 24, I'm hoping this Red-headed woodpecker is delivering some suet to a youngster in a nest somewhere.

May 24 This female Baltimore Oriole was rapping on the kitchen window. I'm quite sure the message was "Hey! Grape Jelly, now!".

May 25, she's back at 7:30 in the morning.

Spring 2025 (April)

Some photos I've posted recently on FB, for those who aren't on that odd virtual space.
I think these were all taken through the kitchen window except the asterisked ones.

First hummingbird of the season April 30

*Ma Bluebird "dive bombing" me when I got too close to her family April 28

Coopers hawk April 29

Just to prove it, there really were two at once.

April 29 the glorious Red-headed woodpecker arrived

House Finch in the Autumn Olive, April 27

Composite, April 27

Composite, April 27

I didn't know the flowers were nutritious

Catbird showing colourful undertail coverts, April 27

April 23

*Bluebirds. There were 6 eggs, possibly hatched yesterday or today April 18

One of my faves, the Field sparrow. Who could be meeker? April 22