Anna's Hummingbird-Wed.Wings



 Anna's Hummingbird



Happy 1st Day of Spring

Early Spring wildflower in Prescott Nat'l Forest

Achoo! This Makes Us Wheeze & Sneeze

It looks like a forest fire but these are pictures of  POLLEN during our Wed. morning hike in the Prescott Nat'l Forest. As we got closer I realized it was NOT smoke or dust, but amazing clouds of pollen coming off  the trees carried by the breeze. The pollen was all over this particular area and these are the best pics.
                                             Sniffle... sneeze......achoo! .... claritin alert!

Gotcha! White-Crowned Sparrow/Wed.Wings



Sitting pretty, high up in a tree .......

 


oh...so nonchalant.....then,  look very close

 


as he closes in on his meal!
White-crowned Sparrow



Nesting Double-crested Cormorants

The trees on the south shore of Willow Lake are crowded with  Cormorants building their nests



Visible "double crests"  with this pair of Cormorants



This Cormorant looks hilarious with his crest sideways :)



Sun shining through the "crest"   



Double-crested Cormorant in flight



This Cormorant pair are done building their nest and I wonder how many mouths they will have to feed? 



Northern Flickers - Wings on Wed.



Northern Flicker - male





Northern Flicker - female



Spring-like Observations

Receding snow at Goldwater Lake on a sunny afternoon



Lesser Goldfinch showing his colors & singing a song




Small pink buds color the forest floor 




Mountain Bluebirds making their arrival known




See my grown-up antlers?




Pine Siskin  (on the left)  demostrating good feeding traits to his new mate :)