Bluebird!

The snow is finally melting around here, and the other day I went with my birding companions

Maggie and friend Emma

to Center Road Park, a relatively new and very lovely natural area just a few minutes from my house.  We traversed hill and dale, then sat in the sun for awhile to see what we could see.  Though it was only in the 50s, it felt much warmer in the sunshine and it was just heaven being in the woods and listening to the sounds of birds and other critters.  Maggie and Emma, both being in their senior dogs years, were also quite content to just hang out.

So I was sitting there with my binoculars, and what do I see but a blue bird!  My first one.  It was blue with a rusty throat and white and tan on the breast.  I didn't know it then, but I was seeing my first (aptly named) Eastern Bluebird!  A look in Sibley's later confirmed it.

Though I didn't get a picture of that particular bird, later I happened on to this one:

Tee hee!