Fhaedra & Eye

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a powerful language ~ Martin Buber

Narcissus

The Flower of Sleep

Geese Over the Barn

As you can see from the video the numbers of Geese have become almost uncountable. Most of the other birds are back in pretty large numbers as well.

Spring I guess will be official when the Vultures arrive.

Moon Eagle

So taking a shot of the moon today leaning up against a wall for stability I snapped off a couple of shots

Okay you are thinking the moon. Washed out a bit from the daylight.

Then I took another shot and thought I saw something as I snapped the picture.

Did not really see anything on the screen.

Downloaded the pictures onto the computer and this was in there.

Bit of a shocker as the wall blocked it coming in and leaving. Never saw it.

First Week of Feb Around the Barn

Around the Farm this week we have new boss crow he is bigger and more aggressive but people shy.

The older white winged crow is no longer around at all. Though there are a few offspring with a bit of white on them his distinctive dog call whistle is silent.

Had another eagle fight this week and apologize for the poor pictures but it was raining, had the camera set for different set of shots and it happened really fast. (Excuses) Loud and absolutely awesome as the bigger eagle swooped down on the smaller eagle seen in the first shot.

Between the tree branches you can see the actual hit and the smaller eagle immediately fled.

Multiple duck formations overhead. Swans, geese, brant, blue heron are all calling and flying overhead.

More song birds are now here and the robins have begun to show up in numbers. Chickadees are all over the place. Starlings are back at over double the number from last week maybe couple of hundred of them in the air. Had a couple of mosquitoes around and a whole bunch of flies. Lots of Brewers around.

Sparrows and a thrush, one small woodpecker black and grey that I could not identify. It is still here but not able yet to get a picture. We also have a brilliant red bird with a lighter color underneath. Almost thought it was a parrot but not able to get a picture of it AGAIN slipping...

Gulls are now at a minimum probably due to weather being much better.

We also have had a couple of doves which I have not seen here before and a group of pidgeons blew past into the trees.

Changes Around Quamichan Valley End of Jan 2011

Sunrise over the last couple of weeks of Jan 2011 have been over seas of Fog making for spectacular soul searching mornings.

This week I have several Brewers Blackbirds to add to the list from last week.

Approximately 75 to 100 Starlings

Chickadees

Brants

There was a horrible fight with two factions of crows. Now we have a much larger Murder flying around so not sure what happened but the outcome is obvious with twice as many crows now.

Last weeks smaller murder of crows. The new larger group is really aggressive and really camera shy. Next week will post pictures of the new larger group.

The resident Bald Eagles also had a nasty territory fight on their wings. The start of it was above the neighbouring farm and ended up in the small forested area behind them. Our resident eagles won the battle as was evident from the Juvenile that reappeared checking them out.

Last week around the Barn

Red Tail Hawk

In my coup with the song birds now this one is not able to get out how did he get in?

Have to let him out every day.

Towhee

The Three Trumpeteers

List of critters from the last week

42 Song Birds
4 Robins 1 with white on it

1 Towhee

1 Redwing

1 Evening Grossbeak

Several Varied Thrush hard to count

38 Brewers BlackBirds

6 Killdeer

About 4o Crows hard to count 1 has white streaks on wings

4 Ravens

Hundreds of Gulls inland due to storms and calving

Hundreds of Trumpeteer Swans
Hundreds of Canada Geese

Several Snow Geese

8 Woodducks

12 Buffleheads

2 Blue Herons

1 Grey Heron?

30 or so California Quail

1 Redtail Hawk

2 Resident Bald Eagles

3 Young Bald Eagles various stages of growth

2 Gold Eagles

1 Snowy Owl

1 maybe 2 Grey Owls

1 Merlin or Sharpskin not quite sure

1 Cooper Hawk

2 Rats RIP

3 Mice RIP

3 Racoons

2 Black Squirrels

1 Very Pregnant Black Tailed Deer

5 Deer in total 1 a buck no horns

Heard but not seen

2 Owls the greys I think

1 Cougar twice around 0530 in the morning once on Tuesday and once on Friday from the direction of Richards Mountain