Backyard birding

If your backyard is the Grand Canyon.

Since I'm still somewhat under the weather, I'm spending time cleaning up electronic things - the computer, the blog, the website - you know, the usual. So I'm uploading some of the pictures that used to be buried on my website to flickr and every now and then one pops up that sparks a memory or idea or is just a favorite. Yesterday's grackle photo was one such, but here's another, very different one. I know some of you reading this will understand when I say that despite the overwhelming beauty and majesty of the canyon, I would have been disappointed if I hadn't seen a condor at least once while I was there.

The one that got away

Last night, while doing some chores out back, I saw our resident Canada geese and realized they had a gosling with them. Cute, as all baby animals are, but it was dusk by that time and no hope of a decent photo.

So, in the spirit of spring, I give you the mallard duckling I saw in San Antonio a few years ago instead.