MAY 10, poem and selected pic: shelduck

poetry lyrics:/ Quacked the shelduck, "With no GPS/ We migrate. In high winds, we digress/

From our usual flight-path./ So one dark-stormy-night path,/

We land here, refugees in US/ (They prefer that we leave, that's my guess). 

MAY 7, selected pics: London-canal bird-babies

Photos from canal locales in London UK were kindly provided by Josh.

a family of coots

a mute swan family

MAY 4, selected pic: skinks' springtime return

MAY 1, selected pic: yellow-capped night heron stalking prey

 

APR 29, selected pic: river otter, afternoon nap pending

 

APR 26, selected pic: brown-pelican yoga-student

 

APR 23, selected pic: brown-pelican yoga-instructor

 

"Sorry! I have a frog in my throat"

APR 20, selected pic: hornbill

       

Authors' Note:  view at the Prospect Hill Zoo, Brooklyn, NY. 

(hover over the picture, then choose lower-margin box icon second to right for display, and then return from 'full screen')

 

APR 17, selected pic: strutting peacocks

APR 14, selected pic: seal rehearsing in a training tank