Wildlife Moments

I’ve seen so many cool things this week.  I didn’t get pictures of most of them because they were short moments of things I’ve never seen or heard before.  Not to go into too much detail, here’s a rundown of some of my wildlife moments.

• Watching the Hummingbird feed on a little wild oat flower

• Having a gray fox cross the road in front of me

• Seeing a merganser sitting on the wood duck house with a watchful eye on the green heron that was getting close to her nest.  All the while a tree swallow was dive bombing the merganser because it was using the wood duck house to raise it’s family.

• Hearing the sapsuckers pounding on just about every thing…metal, plastic and wood.

• While sitting in my blind, I could see turtles doing a lot of swirling around in the water.  Mating I presume.

• Seeing herons and hawks grab little fish out of the pond.

• The tree swallows, robins, woodpeckers, phoebes are all busy with nesting duties.

• And then today while I was sitting at the computer, I saw this.  Four different kinds of beautiful birds, all feeding without any bullying or trying to hog all the seed for itself.

It’s really a beautiful time of the year right now.  I’m not going to say a word about the ticks, black flies or mosquitoes because I’ve waited too long for all these wildlife moments.  This is why I love spring in the Northland so much.