Birds and Squirrels and Bunnies, Oh My!!!

 Male House Finch.

Male Northern Cardinal with Mourning Dove lurking.

 Wascally Wild Wabbits!!!

SO cute!

 Not so cute, but handsome devil...

 White-breasted Nuthatch!

 Grackle.

 Downy Woodpecker!

 Cardinal with seed.

 Chipping Sparrow on tree, Tufted Titmice on suet feeder.

Bluejay!

Cardinal! Well, it is baseball season, after all...

 And adorable Eastern Phoebes...

Can't wait to see the little ones!

And the "pink" full moon...just past full, actually, but brilliant!

Life is challenging but good in the shadow of Hog Hill.

More Backyard Birding

I love our little Carolina Chickadees!

 Ms. Cardinal

 Mr. Cardinal

 We have Eastern Phoebes nesting in our carport!

 They hunt flying things from perches in our Oak trees.

 The Tufted Titmice are so cute and fun to watch.

 We have lots of Goldfinches in the 'hood!

Chipper Jones, our pet Chipping Sparrow.

And overhead, always, the masters of the winds. We not only have lots of Turkey Vultures, we have actual Wild Turkeys in abundance in nearby fields! Hope to get pics of them soon.

There is also an Occasional Squirrel...obviously she has the good Kung Fu!

And of course the same Moon...the Moonman abides...
We have returned to the land of our ancestors, so we like to go visit...these are a few snaps from our ride up to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, in the shadow of the South Mountains, southern Burke County, NC.

 My Great-Great Grandparents

 Violets!

 Rackety Kildeer

And goats...staring at me...

Hope you have a good week!

Pecker Woods, Cooper's Hawk, and more out back

 Red-Bellied Woodpecker

 Downy Woodpeckers

 More Red-Bellied woodpeckers

 We have a couple of Carolina Chickadees, along with a White-Breasted Nuthatch!

 And this beautiful Cooper's Hawk, checking out the house sparrow buffet

 I've seen as many as six Cardinals at one time!

 Pair of females

Redbird on snow

Along with the Occasional Squirrel

Beauty Trumps Ugliness

There is much beauty in this strange Autumn that wasn't...normally I would be posting pics of dried up corn, deer, bean fields being harvested...not this year. I post the beauty that has brought comfort on these warm fall days. It is enough...it must be in this most ugly political season.

In the long arc of the universe, I must believe this is true: Beauty Trumps Ugliness; Love Trumps Hate. Peace be with you...and VOTE!