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| Blue Dicks are up. I'm just sayin'... |
Yeah, every spring I make the same limp joke about Blue Dicks, an early season wildflower, being 'up'. I know, I'm juvenile. But you know, the other name for these flowers is 'Purplehead', so be grateful I'm letting sleeping dogs lay. Yeah, yeah, right, they're also called 'Cluster Lilies' and '
Brodiaea', but where's the fun in that?
There are other wildflowers popping up but they aren't as much fun as the.. .uh... Brodiaea
(BLUE DICKS!).
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| Fiddleheads are lumped in tangly clumps |
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| And not to kevetch, but vetches are only sort of fetching |
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| The odd California Poppy is up too, but they're not as fun to crow about. |
Bored, I thought to take a little swing through the local boondocks to see how spring is shaping up bird-wise. I know it's pretty much spring out there, not because of the sunrise which has already started off my biannual insomnia - which happily only lasts a few days at worse - but because the squirrels are chasing each other and as I said before, the Blue Dicks are up!
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And the colorful, pink and iridescent green Lewis Woodpeckers are out
posing like they own the joint. Can you see the one there on the log? |
I didn't see any unusual birds, but the spring birds are returning. There are Western Bluebirds, a few Horned Larks and Robins and Varied Thrush are nosily taking possession of woods and urban trees.
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| A Horned Lark that made a spectacle of itself |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch, lookin' all innocent there |
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| Of course some birds stayed put all winter to begin with. |
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| The Killdeers never go too far either - I think. |
