Photo Bomb Cardinal

 "How strange

 that Nature does not knock,

 and yet does not intrude."                                                                

                  ~Emily Dickinson

On a rainy day last week, after yoga, before our morning walk,

 the cherry blossoms beckoned us from the windows.  

One of the yogis, the good Dr. Pearl McHaney, 

stepped out on the deck to take a sweeping video 

of the annual March extravaganza.

 The cardinal did not knock.

~dkm 3-11-23

Red Yellow Blue

Three birds come to feed

Card'nal, pine warbler, bluebird

Primary triad

~dkm 26/52

Cardinal Nest Update

One of the two eggs
has hatched. Father comes to feed
the small bobbing head

Mother still sitting
on the nest between feedings
One egg not yet hatched

Has something gone wrong?
It's been three days since the first
 Seems too long. Worried.

~dkm 315/365

Poor Thing

Father Cardinal
I hardly recognize you
Those nasty nest mites

~dkm 22/365