2. Nature

2015 Wintery Times

December 2015 through March 2016
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2/1 a beautiful somewhat cooler than normal day to kayak. Quiet on the lake, signs of early spring, including this tree leafing out. I watched a red-shouldered hawk on both channels, saw a RT, GBH, but the snowy egrets have all but disappeared. Lots of swallows.
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2/1 a beautiful somewhat cooler than normal day to kayak. Quiet on the lake, signs of early spring, including this tree leafing out. I watched a red-shouldered hawk on both channels, saw a RT, GBH, but the snowy egrets have all but disappeared. Lots of swallows.

  • 1/30 a short but good climbing ride in Cheseboro, thickening clouds, foretelling rain for Sunday.
  • 1/29 I've been consistently seeing lots of Cedar Waxwings in the neighborhood lately, especially in the afternoons I see them feeding on the pyrocantha orange berries.
  • 2/2 the red shouldered hawk - perhaps the RT in the distance? Taken along the north shore of the lake on my 4 mile walk around the lake. Lots of Black Phoebe's on this side. On the south side, bluebirds, Say's Phoebes, a nuthatch, crows, spotted towhees, wrens.
  • 2/2 Another cool but beautifully clear day, I walked around the lake to see what I could see. 4 miles. I've been seeing a flock of cedar waxwings almost every day for quite some time, at windward/Triunfo, especially around the pyrocantha orange berry bushes. Last night I heard the Great Horned Owl hooting. They should be nesting now but where? Perhaps he was hooting to declare his territory.
  • 2/1 testosterone is rising, mute swans are postering. Two mute swans tried to drive what appeared to be a young male away from this end of the lake.
  • 2/1 a beautiful somewhat cooler than normal day to kayak. Quiet on the lake, signs of early spring, including this tree leafing out. I watched a red-shouldered hawk on both channels, saw a RT, GBH, but the snowy egrets have all but disappeared. Lots of swallows.
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  • 2/7 a warm February morning, I spent about 20-25 mins in neighborhood seeing what I could see:<br /> 30-40 Cedar Waxwings flew overhead as I walked out the door<br /> 15 yellow rumped warblers<br /> 3 black phoebes<br /> 2 white breasted nuthatches<br /> heard 1 spotted towhee<br /> heard a couple of oak titmice<br /> Cooper's Hawk<br /> RT Hawk<br /> Pigeon<br /> Doves<br /> cormorant flew over<br /> canada geese on lake<br /> 2 western kingbirds<br /> 8 bushtits<br /> 4 juncos<br /> backyard: white crowned sparrows, house finches, goldfinches, pine siskins<br /> 1 male nuttall's woodpecker<br /> 1 hairy woodpecker (male)<br /> anna's hummingbirds
  • 2/7 here's the RT who likes to sit in this pine tree 2 houses down. This tree is succombing to bark beetle and is dying.
  • 2/7 Male nuttall's woodpecker
  • 2/7 male nuttall's woodpecer
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