Happy Spring, friends! Just a few pictures to show everyone what Spring looked like in northeast Ohio when I took my trail walk in Chagrin River Park yesterday. It definitely didn't look like SPRING, but at least some people were loving one last chance to have fun on the sledding hill. And to be honest, a little …
Ever see a duck dance?
I had to dig in my archives to pull out this funny photo. Walking along the trail in Chagrin River Park, I spotted this dancing duck celebrating the arrival of spring. She was entertaining me as well as drawing the attention of other ducks swimming in the bog. Three years have passed since I snapped this happy …
End of winter in sight
The end of winter is almost in sight! This was my first trail walk in Chagrin River Park for more than a week, and I am happy overjoyed to say that it actually felt like spring. There were several signs of spring to celebrate: my first bluebird of the season; stormy-looking skies, an unidentified bird …
A Banner Day for Birds
Back yard bonanza!
Intending to take a photo walk in the park this morning, I discovered I didn't have to leave home. I simply opened the kitchen window, stuck the lens of my Nikon through the opening, and snapped away. I never made it to the park, but I got lots of great pictures because some colorful migratory …
Finally… REAL SPRING!
http://skip220.smugmug.com/2013today/Places/Spring-in-Chagrin-River-park/i-3p5ZFfp/A In the past few days we've gone from winter jacket weather to shorts and sunglasses. After waiting for an interminably long time, it seems that spring has finally arrived. Three cheers for warm, sunny, blue-sky weather. The Baltimore orioles (the birds, not the baseball team) are my most thrilling sightings this week, but there …
It’s beginning to look like spring…
http://skip220.smugmug.com/2013today/Places/HoldenSpring-wildflowers/i-JTMM8Ck/0/L/2014_04_23_Holden_092-L.jpg However, it doesn't FEEL much like spring! Well, except for the raindrops that were falling on my head during my walk in the park this morning. I am reminded of a spring some years back when cold and wet suddenly, actually overnight, became sunny and 90 degrees, and we went from complaining about the …
A “twofer” for today
http://skip220.smugmug.com/2013today/Places/Spring-in-Chagrin-River-park/i-nCMmVXD/0/XL/2014_04_24_Chagrin%20River%20Park_059-XL.jpg Red-bellied woodpeckers are my favorite birds to photograph. Besides being sharp-looking birds, they have ATTITUDE! Tracking them in hopes of a photo op is just plain fun, and they are so darn photogenic! Then there this little bird...the brown creeper. http://skip220.smugmug.com/2013today/Places/Spring-in-Chagrin-River-park/i-f28VRR7/0/XL/2014_04_24_Chagrin%20River%20Park_023-XL.jpg A lot of luck and not a little dexterity is required to capture his photo. …
It’s that time again!
http://skip220.smugmug.com/Photo-galleries/Nature-galleries/Wildlife-seen-on-my-photo-walk/i-SmhJrbk/0/XL/2014_04_09_Chagrin%20River%20Park_024-XL.jpg What time is it? It's nest building time! That means it must be spring. Never mind the fact that it snowed yesterday. The calendar says today is April 16th, and the blue jay is ready to go into nest building mode! Yay for spring! One of these days the temperature will warm up (above this morning's …
Red-bellied woodpecker
When one of these beautiful birds flies in for a photo op, it always makes me smile! It posed happily and wasn't the least intimidated by my presence. Almanac After temperatures of nearly 80 degrees on Sunday, spring deserted us. On Tuesday night snow fell. Only about an inch and a half, but snow is …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 
