For the most part, we only see Redheads during migration and in winter. In the breeding season they are far to the west in ponds with open water and dense reedy vegetation.

We saw this one this morning:

Here are some photos from previous walks:

Other birds:

Today’s group:

A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk continues to frequent my backyard:

NATURE POETRY

We’ll to the woods no more,
The laurels are all cut,
The bowers are bare of bay
That once the Muses wore;
The year draws in the day
And soon will evening shut:
The laurels all are cut,
We’ll to the woods no more.     – A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

Miles Hearn