Some Outtakes

As you can imagine, I take more pictures than I ever use here on the blog.
Common Grackle gathering nesting material. These birds like to build their nests in thick pines, often with others of their ilk nearby in the same tree. Brown Thrashers are more often heard than seen. They don’t spend much time out in the open.Double-crested Cormorant.When I first walked by this Frankenstein daffodil, there were three dead bugs here. A couple of hours later, one more was in the haul. Spider around the corner? It’s rare to see insects in these ornamentals; they do very little for pollinators.Ferns a-popping. The fiddlehead shape is seen in many emerging fern species, not just the ones that are eaten.