These photos are from May 8. Pre-Brood XIII. I have a feeling that the season will now be defined by the emergence of the 17-year cicadas, so this was pre-emergence. Please bear with me through a rather disjointed but short post.
Warbling Vireos were still visible. That's over by now.
Warbling Vireo
It was even easier to see a few butterflies Pre-Cicada.
Red Admiral Butterfly
I managed to see a Nashville Warbler, albeit distant.
The highlight of the day was seeing this Broad-winged Hawk. We don't see them often, and when we do it's only during the summer, according to the Sibley app on my phone.
White-crowned Sparrows were very accommodating this spring.
Indigo Buntings are abundant. Every once in a while I see a female. But everybody is disappearing into the leaf cover.
I did get to see another Chestnut-sided Warbler, sort of.
And an Eastern Kingbird.
Song Sparrows are bored with me.
I did notice a female Baltimore Oriole looking for nesting material.
I followed her up to a tree where she was fashioning her nest. I couldn't resist taking all these photos of her beautiful creation. And as far as I could tell, she was singing while she worked.
We slipped into a chilly, rainy pattern of weather over the Memorial Day weekend that looks like it will continue for a while, and temperatures will not begin to increase until Friday. Up until now, it's been nice to leave the windows open, but I have closed them to conserve warmth in the house. It's not just weather anymore.
Only one thing is certain: Johann Sebastian Bach. I have to practice the prelude to the English Suite No. 2 in A minor as I have decided to play it tomorrow night for the annual choir appreciation dinner talent show. As many times as I have played this as a prelude to the Evening Snack Service, I will need an extra layer of protection against messing it up.
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