love of birds Archives • Into the Light Adventures

Update on the Tree Swallows, Well, I did not get any purple martins at my bird houses this year. But the pair of Tree Swallow birds are still here. I lowered the bird house last week and they have 5 eggs in their nest. So maybe there will be little ones flying around soon. The eggs have been there for quite awhile it seems like. But I have seen them coming in and out of that apartment in the house.

Now, they are called Tree Swallows, so I am assuming they should be nesting in trees, but I think they like being barn swallows and/or apartment dwellers.

Last week I had a surprise visitor at our back yard. A mother black bear and her yearling cub. I will be posting photos tomorrow and a video on You Tube, it was an amazing thing to see.

by Sandra J

The Light in Their Eyes

By Sandra | May 12, 2021

The Light in Their Eyes, Oh how I love to see these birds so close. I see the reflection of the clouds in its beautiful eye. Birds have been a part of my life since I was a child, I never get tired of seeing them and now as I am older, I see their beauty even more trough the light in their eyes.

The Light in Your Eyes

by Sandra J

They’re Our Biggest Waterfowl

By Sandra | April 8, 2021

They’re Our Biggest Waterfowl – Trumpeter Swans demand superlatives: they’re our biggest native waterfowl, stretching to 6 feet in length and weighing more than 25 pounds – almost twice as massive as a Tundra Swan.

Despite their size, this once-endangered, now recovering species is as elegant as any swan, with a graceful neck and snowy-white plumage. They breed on wetlands in remote Alaska, Canada, and the northwestern U.S., and winter on ice-free coastal and inland waters.

They almost appear to be smiling with that little touch of orange in the corner of their bill.

There is a swan behind this branch, my camera changed its focus on the mossy covered branch instead. But I find moss to be so artistic in its own way.

by Sandra J

We Can Learn from Wildlife

By Sandra | December 17, 2020

We Can Learn from Wildlife, The snow turned into the big fluffy flakes today, floating gently down to the ground. As I am photographing these colorful birds at the feeder, I noticed them looking up. Does it not look like they are watching these snowflakes floating down around them?

Especially the female on the left in this photo, if you look close enough, there is a snowflake that just landed in her beak. I believe she is catching them just like we did when we were children.

And the male Grosbeak on the right is watching her, I love that. We are never to old to stop and enjoy nature, to catch snow flakes on our tongues. The birds are showing us to live in the moment, enjoy every minute.