Spring has sprung

Happy first day of spring

 I looked for these violas cousins every spring when I was growing up. On the side of our house , under a huge maple tree, tiny little yellow and purple violets covered the ground every spring. For such small things they had a big scent, and left a lasting impression in my mind.

Mr Cooper's Hawk goes fishing...

Mr and Mrs Cooper's Hawk have been back in the neighborhood for a week or so. They have been doing repair work on their nest. 

Today I saw Mister hunting in our neighbors yard, trying to catch little juncos it looked like. He flew into our yard and up onto the rocks by our koi pond. These pictures are pretty bad as I was in the house shooting through my not so clean windows etc etc etc. but here he is...

I was thinking he was going to get a drink and take a bath like he usually does...

 

right after I took this shot he took off and tried to grab one of the koi, missed , circled back and was going to try again. Of course the koi dove to the bottom of the pond and I, like a dope, tried to move to a different window , and he saw me so vamoosed out of there...

I can hear him explaining the whole thing to the Mrs...can't you?

The wearin' of the Green..

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In bird nerd heaven.

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to take pictures of an immature red tailed hawk in the park. I think Jr. was back again today. Good thing I wasn't a mouse. I was walking along , dum de dum  , hey look at that, something on the fence post up there...

 wonder how close I can get...

Hum, this is rather amazing..

I think something is wrong with junior, I got with in 10 feet, it never flew

just watching me go..

then flew to the other side of the park.

 I think something is wrong with his right foot.

pretty bird, hope he will be alright.

strolling and looking and clicking the shutter...

A lot of activity in the park this morning..

  things blooming...

Cool color and pattern,

We had rain yesterday, the moss on the bridge is in over drive..

Nest building time.

People and pooches

California sled dog team!

a squirrel doing the pound, pound, peace, chest tapping thing..

It's a strange mood i'm in..

I drive by this house at least once a week, today I just had to stop and take pictures because this title popped into my head.

Hot tin cat on a roof..

 

Hidden picture..and a just because I liked it picture.

 A dragon .

Lycra man says its two squirrels riding a sparrow...he is on cold medicine...

I thought the cabbage was really pretty...