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During the big ice & snow storm in January.
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I do look good, don't I?
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Male cardinal and two Harris sparrows.
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A fox sparrow that visited us for several days during the storm. Many on the okbirds email list reported fox sparrows at their feeders - an unusual occurrence - during the storm.
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February - getting cabin fever...
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Dreaming of spring...
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Goldfinches, the male starting to get a bit of color!
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A butterfly in March - there is hope!
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Time for my spring bath! - Harris sparrow.
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Am I done yet?
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Oops, how did Nessie get in here? (April now...)
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House finches.
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Mourning doves cleaning up seeds below the house finches...
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Macey and Godzilla...
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OK Zilla, we're going to have a strawberry now...
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Open up, Zilla!
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Ok now, swallow...
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Where did Zilla go??
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Macey shows Bill where the mama duck is sitting on her eggs...
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See??
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Sharon and her pride and joy ----
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Horny toad! in Mustang, OK, in May.
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The horny toad was so kind as to come out and pose for me in the light...
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Dragonfly nymph shell - empty, there must be a dragonfly around here somewhere!
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Could the bird on the lower perch on the right be a purple finch?
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Ladybug - adult and pupa.
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Dragonfly! Still working the kinks out of its new wings. In our pond, the end of May.
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Monarch butterfly on orange butterfly weed, June 1.
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A tiger swallowtail butterfly on our honeysuckle! I'm guessing he / she was hatched on our fennel plants.
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A hemiptera on the lantana.
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Caught a young mourning dove napping by the flower bed...
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Oops!
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His sibling is more wary of me but still doesn't want to leave his nice shade.
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Just hangin' out...
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Young brown thrasher bathing...
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Hey, are you looking at me??
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Back to work...
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Drying and preening in the sunshine.
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That's all, folks! (for now...)
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