Scilla

 

springs little blue sprite!

 



Red Breasted Nuthatch

Song Sparrow

 

 

A spring melody

in the air

oh so sweet!

 

 



Spring Birds

 

Spring brings birds

to our yard

These are some of the usual suspects

Tree Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Dark Eyed Junco

 

 



Maple Syrup

 

A great Canadian tradition

the boiling of Maple tree sap
in the spring to make
Maple syrup!
Its not a pancake without.
This is my neighbors sugar shack,
he tapped his trees and ours
boiled and we have the liquid gold!

The fuel to boil.

The sap to boil and boil!
 



Cathartes aura

 

 

Harbinger of spring

the soaring Turkey Vulture

aloft on the winds!

 

 

1st bloom of 2015

 

 

The 1st bloom

in Gardner's  garden for 2015

the Crocus always brings a smile

 



White Tails

 

 

White Tailed Deer

 

 



Black-capped Chickadee

 

Poecile atricapilla

 

 

 



Golden-crowned Kinglet

 

Regulus satrapa



April Morning Atmosphere

 

 5 AM

Everything is still

fog rises off the snow that remains

April warmth

quiet comfort so serene

a view down the street

gives me  silent comfort

I begin to dream

until awakened by a call

Spring!

 

~JE Ted Gardner

 

 



Green on Green

                       
                                                                         Green head male Mallard
                                                                    on the aptly named Green River

Bohemian Waxwing

 

Bombycilla garrulus

 

I really happy with these shots.

Not because they are great sharp  shots, because they are not.

I happy because these were shot with my new gear

at an extreme distance!

My Canon 7D Mark II with the Canon 100-400 IS II Usm

lens have opened up a whole new world of possibilities!

Stay tuned! Spring is afoot!  

 



Canada Geese

 

 

She's always in my ear!!

 

 



The Picture Within....

Early evening sun shined on a picture hanging in our stairway.

The light changed the image in my eye

I was caught...so I now shoot the picture within the picture.

Shot on an angle to catch the light.

Much thanks to Phil Rimmer for an image on our wall we have loved

just a different look?

 



March Snow

 

Is spring really here?

 

 



Once a Rose

Mallards

Snow Bunting

Winters Bird
He will fly north soon
as Spring is on his heels.
He has brightened many a cold day,
and he will return
but another season away
~JE Ted Gardner