Birdwatching at McFarland

Kingbird

Brown-headed cowbird

Bluebird

White breasted nuthatch

Wren (not sure what kind)

Hairy Woodpecker

Common Yellowthroat - these are SO HARD to get a picture of!

Kinglet

Tree Swallows nesting in a duck box

Chipmunk

Robin on her nest

Rick Fishing

Chickadee nesting in a bluebird box

Baltimore Oriole (male)

Baltimore Oriole pair

TURTLES!!

Largemouth bass (caught by Charles)

Palm Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Goldfinch

Baby Squirrels!

Paper Cranes made out of campus maps

Got new flowers for the porch!

Hedgie Hoarder

Rick and I got Rollo a brand new 4-pack of crinkle balls -because every other toy we've tried to give him has been ignored entirely.

Because hedgehogs are so sensitive to smell we thought it might take a few days for him to explore the new crinkle balls. So last night before we went to sleep I put the crinkle balls in a ring so I'd know if he moved any.

Completely unnecessary
Woke up this morning to this

We're pretty sure the only reason crinkle ball #5 didn't make it in is because he couldn't figure out how to make it fit in the igloo.

Warbler Migration Has Started!

Rick wanted to do some fishing before I went in to work today so we had our coffee and headed out to McFarland Park. The fishing wasn't very good, but we started spotting warblers on their spring migration!

Ring-billed ducks

COOT!

White-throated sparrow

White-throated sparrow

Here we see the rare and elusive Fishingrick in its natural habit

Butter-butt! First of the year!

Yellow-rumped warbler (butter butt)

Palm Warbler - first of the year!

Butter Butt

Butter butt

Palm warbler

Downy Woodpecker

Eastern Towhee singing - First of the year!

Eastern Towhee

Song Sparrow

Friday Fishing

Rick and Charles decided to go fishing on campus at Lake LaVerne. 

I wandered around taking pictures of the campus wildlife before going back to photograph their fishing exploits.

Chipping Sparrow near Ross Hall (ISU Campus)

I think this is a crabapple

Scilla (I think?)

Baby Squirrel! So Cute!

Peeking out of his nest

The squirrel nest is pretty high up

peeking out again - he's SO CUTE!!

White throated sparrow

Magnolia

2nd baby squirrel

both babies

2nd baby again

THIS RABBIT HAS EYEBROWS

Robins

Robin

Rick, Charles, and Charles' bluegill - Lake LaVerne (ISU campus)

Rick's Bluegill

Charles and a large-mouth bass

Rick and another bluegill

Amazing action shot of Rick pulling in a bluegill

Rick and another bluegill

Rick and another Bluegill

Rick and another bluegill

Rick and another bluegill

The leucistic squirrel! For a better picture of her see the May 5, 2013 post

I think Charles caught more fish than Ricky did, he caught at least 3 bass (or the same one 3 times) but he never SMILES in the pictures so I didn't put them on here.