This afternoon, I took a stroll down back to the beaver pond to look for odes. It was cool and mostly cloudy and I was not expecting to see much in the way of odes so I took only my binoculars.
The black flies were not too bad! There were painted turtles sunning on a log in the beaver pond. There were swifts or swallows (one of these days I’ll figure out which!) foraging from the tops of the snags and there were other birds about.
But, as I expected, there were no odes in flight. However, I did scare a single Hudsonian Whiteface (either a female or an immature male) up out of the vegetation as I walked through the wet meadow.
On my way back up the hill I found a painted trillium, so I headed back out with the camera gear to photograph it. There were also some very small ferns beginning to emerge in the woods. The trillium blossom is less than the size of a quarter and the fern is maybe the size of a nickel.
It was good the get out and photograph. I am looking forward to the next few months.
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The painted trillium is exquisite! Sharp throughout and great color.
Comment by Just Joe — 6 May 2012 @ 11:59 PM