My first gift from nature is a new bird to my feeders! I am so excited!
A Western Tanager! I’ve never seen one here before. The website says they are woodland birds. It just may be passing through. Only time will tell.
The bears are back. A mom bear (sow) and one cub have been spotted (several times) just below our farm…running along the fence line. Another bear has been bothering a bee hive over about two miles from us.
Saturday is the first day of May’s Full Moon…this year it is a Blue Moon complete with a sighting of Mars!!! You can read all about it here!
I hope the sky is clear for you, wherever you might be! To see the bright, bright light of the moon and the red planet Mars will be a gift of a lifetime!
Love,
Linda
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I’m afraid the weather is not going to cooperate with me on the full moon. For some reason we always seem to have thick clouds at that time. Your new bird is beautiful.
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I hope our thick clouds are gone! I want to see the moon on Saturday!!!
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Surprised you captured the bear-nice. We had them a lot in town. Tangers are SO pretty – hope he stays around.
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I hope he does too! It was a HUGE delight to see him!
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ooh: bears. it’s not the bears but the wrackoonz, which is why we close the garage door every nite! pretty bird: I think … not sure, we have a usual contingent of similarly-colored birds. and, of course the hummers are back, and a (s)heron each day goes fishing in the pond …
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OH! LUCKY YOU! Your own Heron!
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well, we share it, and the other pond denizens, with the nay-bore-hoodliness …
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Linda, I grew up in Delta, went on many a Sunday drives with my parents on the Western slope, hiked, fished, hunted and lived in Colorado all my life and I have yet to see a bear in the wild in Colorado. I have seen them in Canada and Alaska and they are beautiful animals. Your picture gives me hope I will see one in Colorado.
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They are here. We’ve had them in our yard at different points. They love sweet corn!
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Oh thank you for the reminder of the blue moon, hooray! I love the tanager. Nature is being good to you for sure. Didn’t realize you had bears — pretty cool as long as they stay off your front porch ;>)… some people have seen them in the nature area next door here. But I have never.
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We’ve had them in the yard. And all up and down the ditch banks. The puma’s scare me…we get those also.
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Birds often get blown out of their natural range during storms.
Didn’t know there were bears around other than in the mountains. Looks like it could be dangerous
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Oh, we have them randomly. They come up from the canyons!
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Thanks for the chart. My this year’s calendar doesn’t give “moon news” and i miss that.
Your bird looks unreal
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It was a first for me!
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Maybe the WesternTanager was visiting from our place. We see them fairly often — hard to miss with the bright colors!
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It’s a first for me!!
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Great photos! Thank you.
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The bear playing at the bee hives might be Winnie the Pooh! Mom read stories about him!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Winnie the Pooh LOVES honey! You are right, Cupcake! Boomer
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What species of bear are we talking here? I don’t like the sound of big ones robbing your sweetcorn in the back yard…
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Brown bear mostly. We do have some black bear.
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Perhaps not quite as dangerous as I’d feared then….
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Well, they can be. I don’t really want to meet one in the dark.
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Well, quite, but at least they’re not grizzlies. Good job you’ve got Boomer along on your twilight walks, I’m sure he makes an excellent early warning system!
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I sure hope we have a cloud free night here in the Land Down Under!
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I hope you do too!!!!
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I’ve seen a western tanager in Fowler, Co. I almost fell over! Do you get a little nervous with the Bears, or are you just used to them?
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They love sweet corn and will tear up the fields. So not good. They also like all fruit so can be a huge problem.
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I didn’t know that. So small and beautiful, yet so destructive.
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Not too small…the size of cow and if a sow!
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Really? I must be thinking of the wrong bird. I better look it up! Thank you. 😊
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Bird?!?! I thought you meant the bear! TEE HEE! No it’s a smallish bird…like an Starling or so.
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Oh Lol! Now it all makes sense! Silly us. 😂
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Silly me!
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Stunning bird! Not so much the bears though
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Not so much!
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The tanager is lovely- the bears scare me! Looking forward to our flower moon tonight, hope the clouds clear a bit.
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I hope they do so for you also!
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