1/100 flowers with creatures

I've never seen house finches eating flowers, but that did seem to be what this one was doing.

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Day 91/365
2/100 flowers with creatures
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Eastern towhees are warm-weather birds locally (though I did see one this past winter, for the first time), and finding one in full song among spring buds seemed a good way to start April (even if it was just around freezing when I took this photo).

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3/100 flowers with creatures . . . might as well continue with birds among the tree blossoms for now

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4/100 flowers with creatures

Seeing orioles was my main reason for venturing out a second time today. The day we saw the orchard oriole, a fellow birder saw the Baltimore. I returned to the area a day or two later and saw a male--but didn't manage photos. Today I went again and found a very cooperative male, posing in lots of pretty settings and even letting me watch him get nectar high in a buckeye tree.

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5/100 flowers with creatures (to make 5 bird photos)

It was such a lovely day, with many species I haven't seen previously this spring. I saw at least 30 species including at least six first-time-this-year sightings. Four warbler species, two hawks, three woodpeckers, two shorebirds, and so forth. And that doesn't count the pair of geese with a family of goslings that I saw earlier in the day, because I didn't see them on this walk. I didn't get good shots of all of them, and I won't keep all the photos in my stream. But for now, here are some of the lovely sightings from a wonderful day for seeing birds.

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