Dina's Wildlife Adventures

At the end of May I had my camera in the car and was running errands and decided to drive through the nearby neighborhood with one of the the largest wild peacock populations. I wasn’t sure if it was too early for babies. There are several hundred peacocks roaming this neighborhood. The urban legend states the peacocks are descendants of t...

I realized I had not finished posting the final chapters of the story of this year’s eagle nest in my neighborhood. These were all taken several mornings back in March while I was at the nest early in the mornings. One morning it was foggy and when I first got to the nest I could see a doe down along the utility field.

I was back out on the dock at Chesnut Park in mid-May looking for the baby purple gallinules. At first I just saw the adults above. Both parents were running around the big spadderdock leaves looking for food.

I finally got a quick glance of the little black fuzzballs but they were far away and kept hiding under the big lea...

The shell ginger plants in the front yard were blooming in early May. I saw the hummingbirds feeding on them several times but was not able to get a picture from the window and if I went outside they would fly away.

House finches have become regular daily visitors to the backyard.