More Tiny Treasures

The Fleabane is flourishing on our place and that is fine with me. I can count on them to be available for a photo-op now until the end of July. I needed that availability today since I could not find the new place on our face as I hoped. So I went took a few shots of my ever faithful Fleabane. So here is a Fleabane And A Long-Horned Grasshopper Nymph.

I took this with me Powershot G3
I took this with me Powershot G3

A New Face On Our Place

As I was taking The Boy on his regular evening adventure we came upon a lovely grey cat. It was sleeping in the ex-garden bed  (It is still a garden bed but now it is just one in waiting…as waiting till next year since it did not happen this one!) enjoying the days last rays. That is not the new face though he is the reason I came back out. I wanted to see if I could find him to make sure he was not a lost cat but instead I found something else: Here is the new face on Our Place!

I took this capture with my Powershot SX10is
I took this capture with my Powershot SX10is

Building A Tree House

The Bride and I had a great day at the lake yesterday. As we walked-about we noticed a small bird skimming over the water. We followed it as it landed on the top of the remains of one of two trees in the water of the small inlet we stood by. As we watched another bird came into view and then seemed to disappear. The Bride thought it took off in the opposite direction and the trees blocked our view. I thought so too until the second bird seemed to emerged out thin air. All the while the first bird simply sat atop the highest of the two trees.

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We decided to walk around the inlet to get a closer look of the trees. As we were looking I noticed a small hole in the shortest of the two trees. Just then a little head stuck out of the hole! Then it was gone but we were hooked. I mean how cool was this: These two little birds had made a home out these old,dead trees. We sat and watched them and I tried to get a few shots of them coming out of the hole with no luck. On to Plan B.

Plan B was simple: The Bride was my spotter and I focused on the trees with my camera. Well we spent a good amount of time trying to capture the birds coming and going but had little success.The two below are the best I could do but spending time with The Bride and observing the going ebb and flow of nature, well that is priceless! I hope to go back and spend some more time watching these two awesome little birds.

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The Bride and I think these two are Tree Swallows. If otherwise let us know by commenting.