Odds and Ends....

Now that the French Open is over maybe I'll get outside to take some new photos. These are a few I've taken in the past week and never got around to posting.  Nothing great, but a lot of odds and ends.

Nothing like starting with the worst photo!  This bird was over my head in the maple tree squawking at me very loudly.  I think it might be a young Brown Thrasher since I saw the one below in the yard during the same time.  I was trying to get a decent photo of the House Wren that is living in the gourd that hangs in that tree, but this bird was so loud and distracting.  I need to go out and sit and watch for the wren from a better location.  

 The Brown Thrasher in the yard.

 We have a few different day lilies blooming right now....not very many.  I'm a terrible gardener and just sort of stick stuff in the ground here, there and everywhere and hope it grows.

 The common orange ones that some people call "ditch lilies".  I love seeing them along the highways.

 We also have black raspberries right now.  I was out picking them earlier and the worse part is the ticks that hang around the area.

A young Cardinal on the front walk.

 My double Lilies....my favorites. They have so many blooms and are very sturdy.

A really dark skinny lily. 

I stopped by the park to check on the Barn Swallow nest and there was this other little bird sitting on the ground nearby...... 

 ....I wondered if it is a Kingbird baby.  There was an adult Kingbird in the area and the Swallows seemed to be chasing other birds at times.  It was all sort of confusing.  I think there was a Cowbird babe nearby, too on the ground.  I guess all the young ones are learning to fly right now.

 The adult Swallow swooping in with food.  My shots aren't very clear. I have to sit in my car and shoot to keep from irritating them too much.

 Expectant....they know food is coming.

 They look big enough to take off on their own soon.  

I hope they leave before there are any soccer games in the fields.  Being right over the men's room is not a good location with a bunch of  little kids running around.

 A parent giving me the evil eye.  One parent stays on the wire watching the nest while the other parent is out collection bugs.

"My turn....my turn.....he's getting all the food!"

I may swing by there later today and see if they have left the nest yet.