In addition to flowers blooming and warmer weather, the birds that live in the area around our home begin showing their spring behaviors. This mockingbird sits atop a power pole in back, or a nearby tree and does his imitation of countless bird calls while flapping and flitting, doing his mating song and dance.
From early in the morning until the last light of evening, his chirps and warbles can be heard throughout the neighborhood. Mockingbirds are very pretty birds as well.
Bear celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by briefly posing with this shamrock headgear. I say briefly because each time I put this on her, she would quickly manage to get it off.
UPDATE: Moved to the top since our servers were messed up yesterday and folks may not have seen this.
Just move this window around until this cute li’l pug gets all of it.
Seriously – this just made us both go with big smiles and chuckles. Enjoy.
Listening to both the Democrats and Republicans is pretty boring stuff. It starts out with every candidate’s over use of the personal pronoun – me, me, me – I, I, I.
Especially boring is the empty rhetoric from the Obama campaign . . .
Paleeeeze, Barack – say something with some substance! You’re even boring my dog!
We took a ride down to Point Vicente today to visit the Interpretive Center and maybe spot some whales migrating along the coast. We didn’t see any spouting whales this time, but were treated to several flights of California Brown Pelicans as they soared along the cliffs. As this bird flew by, he was only a few yards away from the path where I stood to take this picture.
As the flight continued southeastward, I snapped another shot as they (almost effortlessly) followed the cliff line toward the lighthouse. Please click on the image to open the viewer and see them in full panorama.
‘Bear’ is what we call her even though her paperwork name is ‘Callisto.’ The nickname is appropriate though, since the mythical Callisto was turned into a bear by Jupiter at one point, when she misbehaved.
Our Bear seldom displeases us, though. She has the sweetest personality and is a wonderful companion for us. When we take her to pet care, the caretakers always dote over her and are sorry to see her go home. I just love her.
Today we took a detour down by the ocean on our way for the weekly grocery shopping. It was just after a rain last night and the winds were whipping. We stopped at the L.A. Harbor breakwater by Cabrillo Beach and saw a number of sea birds including sandpipers, Caspian Terns, pelicans and several varieties of seagulls. The gull in the picture is a Heermann’s Gull, characterized by its black legs and feet and its red bill. Click on the picture to see the 1024×768 version in the image viewer.
From Wikipedia:
The Heermann’s Gull (Larus heermanni) is a gull resident in the United States and Mexico. Of the current population of about 150,000 pairs, 90% nest on the island of Isla Rasa off Baja California in the Gulf of California, with smaller colonies as far north as California and as far south as Nayarit. After breeding, birds commonly disperse to central California, and less commonly north as far as British Columbia and south as far as Guatemala. They are usually found near shores or well out to sea, very rarely inland.