Male yellow rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) perched on a twig, waiting his turn at the little pond in my back yard. Delightful, brightly colored summer migrator, very welcome little songbird.

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Tiny urn-shaped flowers of native ground-hugging kinnikinnick flowers, (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) their best most vibrant colors now, when first blooming.

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Tiny tadpole of wood frog (Rana sylvatica). Just working it's way out of the gelatinous mass of eggs, just beginning to wiggle.

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'Walk lightly in spring - Mother Earth is pregnant'

~ Kiowa proverb

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(Setophaga coronata) ♀

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