I know the orioles around my place are not color blind, but they apparently are prejudice of color as they will take the white strings and rarely take any of the red strings for nest building. Even the blue jay came and took the white strings. It is funny to watch them often grab more than one string before flying off to their nesting site as seen in the video I took a few years ago.
Taking Strings
These kittens are not to sure what to make of the calf, who towered over them, so they scrambled to hide behind the gates.
Kittens and Calf
I spotted a lonely wild geranium open today. I always think of them as a summer flower but since the longest day of the year is about a month away, I guess it is more summer than spring anymore even if the calendar doesn’t say so yet. The wild geranium, also called spotted geranium or wood geranium, is native to eastern North America.
First Wild Geranium
After heavy rain which caused my pond to overflow can sometimes stir the water and make it difficult to see the fish in the water from the sediment, but it didn’t get churned up as much as sometimes Lake Superior can after a storm.
After the Storm
The rain fell steadily since last night and today which caused my pond to overflow, but the water flowing out of my little pond is never as pretty as this flow on a branch of the Amnicon River.
Pretty Water Flow
The returning birds seem to get the most attention right now, but some of the year-round birds add some color too as the cardinal stands out against the green grass as well as a backdrop of white snow in the winter. Their red adds to the rainbow of colors at the feeders and add their songs to the spring chorus.
Cardinal on Green Grass
Native to Eurasia, Yellow Rocket it is considered a weed here and so I was pulling those weeds off my lawn. Even though if the bees may have collecting pollen from the blossoms, but there are plenty of dandelions for the bees to collect pollen from instead.
Bee on Yellow Rocket
The wild plum trees are blossoming but I didn’t notice them yesterday, but that might have been because I was startled by a duck that I startled by the pond and I watched him fly away instead of noticing the flowering trees.
Wild Plum Tree Blossoms
The deer in my woods seem to like white flowers as I cannot find a great white trillium blossom left but only the chewed off stems. And the deer even ate the white blooms of the bloodroots, although I did find some white Wood Anemones flowers which tend to grow in thick mats. A single plant may take five years or more to blossom so hopefully since they are low to the ground, maybe the deer will skip these little wildflowers.
Wood Anemones
My bird feeder had some new color today although most of the birds weren’t sharing so it was a revolving scene of color. The oriole was displaying its orange color as it rested on top of the feeder as the red cardinal was trying to land, but soon was replaced by the goldfinch and the black, red and white of the grosbeak. But a flash of blue caught my eye as an Indigo Bunting flew up from the ground to the feeder. With a cheerful song, it is sometimes called the blue canary.
Indigo Bunting
