Can anybody tell me what this flower is. It was on a thick shrub about four feet tall. 2 pix.
We were thrilled to see Mrs Great-horned owl on her nest again--she has not used it for a couple of years. It's in a limb crotch of a huge old live oak and not too far off the ground. They put an owl box up for her in the next tree, but she never used it.
You'll have to take my word that this is a blue-winged teal. There's a better view of him at the bottom--the pics came up in a different order than I put them.
The duck of the day was northen shoveler--they were everywhere.
Here's a better view of the male blue-winged teal, but his wife was a bit shy........LOL
A honking pair of Canada geese at twilight brought my GBBC count to 27 species. But the only one that had any decent numbers was chipping sparrows with just over 60. I think I had much bigger numbers last year with over 300 gold finches alone. Not the best weather for birds this time I guess. I was pleased that the hooded mergansers came by once more--I thought they had headed north already. My usual snowy egret didn't show, but the three brown pelicans did. All the rest were just the usual suspects of feeder birds.
How'd you do?
