Townsend's Chipmunk of the season! Our native squirrels have been with us through sleet, snow, rain and freezing temperatures, but the little native Chipmunk do go into hibernation during the worst of the winter weather.
Later we took a drive over to Kilby...
it must be 3 weeks since we'd been there and the first thing we noticed were the large amount of honey bee's swarming all around our car. Didn't get a picture, I was too busy ducking! The water level has come up a little bit and there were definite sounds of spring....Tree Swallows were chattering overhead....
and there were several Canada Goose pairs, like this one, scattered about up and down the river, lot's of honking and calling back and forth and there was some rat tat tating going on here too..
finally spotted this Northern Flicker who was using this electrical box for a drum.....
it wasn't until I downloaded and started working on these photos that I realized this guy is one of those 'hybrids'....he has the red mustache of the red-shafted, but also the red 'v' on the nape of the neck of the yellow-shafted. Have no idea what colour he was under the wings as he never moved. The object of his affection was perched in a tree a ways off.
There was certainly lots of other activity but not much of anyone co-operating for photos...but then I spotted this....
the first butterfly of the season....a Mourning Cloak... and then for another first, a while later I was standing talking to a neighbour and we heard a Tree Frog croaking.....
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