Today is a dreary, chilly, rainy spring day. We will have sunshine back soon enough, and I’m sure all of nature is welcoming some moisture. We’ve had a couple of scary looking grass fires in the metro area recently, so I’m sure that this is for the greater good. However, I’m chilled today, and haven’t quite been able to warm up. It’s just that kind of a day.
We espied this fellow out on a driveway (out our kitchen window, of course). His stance totally reflects the way I feel today. Brrrrr! We had some discussion of what he was — mostly that it looked like a robin, but not quite. Time for the camera.
He does have a slight blush to the breast feathers, but definitely not a robin. It wasn’t until he stretched himself out that we could see it was a mourning dove.
We could hear a mourning dove the other day when we were out on the deck, but this is our first sighting of the year. Then before I had a chance to put the camera away (c’mon, you know I never put the camera away…), six or seven cedar waxwings blessed us with a visit to the crab apple tree.
This fellow looks pretty skinny, but maybe that’s because the robins got all the crab apples before he got here! They are one of my favorite birds, and sooo pretty!
Sue
