What I saw through the lens today...

 

 

 American Kestrel

 

 

 Black Vulture

 

 

Western Kingbird

 

 

All on the electric wire and or electric poles here by the house this morning...

 

 

 

 

 

 



May the sun shine....

 

 

 

Some pretties...

Michael and I are fixing to go camping this weekend and Fred is staying home to hold down the fort and of course feed the animals!!

I've been busy getting stuff around and today as I was headed to the truck to get some items out of it I spotted butterflies...So I ran back in the house and grabbed the Macro lens, lol. My life story, seems I am always attempting to get some work done and I grab the camera and totally lose track of time and what I was attempting to accomplish, ekk!!

 

 

 Bordered Patch Butterfly and a female. The males were all over her and attempting to breed!

 

 

 An Empress that has had a hard life...

 

 

 Ms. Lydia romping in the flowers with me!

 

 

 Just hanging around...

 

 

 Julie in her afternoon nap location under the Pecan tree...

 

 

Beautiful Empress

 

 

I could have taken more but figured I'd best get busy!! Hopefully the wind will die down a bit in the next day or two and I can try for more...

 

 

 

 

 

 



Our good deed for the day...

Michael and I spotted this Hognose snake in the road on our way home from school...

 

We managed to get him out of the road before he got hit and I managed a few photos of it with the point and shoot camera before he slithered off into the ditch!!

 

 

 

 

 



Observing from the Observation Deck...

When we built the roof/Pagoda thingy over the deck by the pool I put a 3/4" piece of plywood up there and nailed it down. Fred asked me what the heck are you doing? I'm creating an observation deck. He wasn't thrilled until I mentioned that it might be a good place to sit during deer hunting season, then he smiled! Saturday I finally finished the ladder up to the observation deck and I've been sitting up there observing the countryside and loving it!

 

 And of course I take the camera with me...Way across the creek is a windmill just peeking over the treetops!

 

 

 The does started coming up from the creek just before sunset! I also saw a Northern Shrike and an American Kestrel (Sparrow hawk)....

 

 

 The sun was hiding behind a cloud just before setting...

 

 

 Sun slipping down under the horizon...

 

 

 

I managed to get a photo of 11 deer and spotted 13 total, all does and fawns...

 

It was a gorgeous evening and glad I got a chance to sit and observe.