May 2017, Things to Celebrate

May is my birthday month, and it also marks two full years
I've been here at the house. 

It's really a great month for a celebration. 
So. . .  Roses, why not?

There are five bushes, white in the center, pink on each side, red on the east end and you can barely see the beautiful yellow on the far end by the deck.  My friend Lawrence planted them all in the summer of 2015, so they're in their second year and blooming beautifully.

This is my backyard.  It's a very active area. 

Squirrels, rabbits, a single groundhog,

occasionally deer, a large variety of birds.

And this year something really unique happened. 

Owls, not a good photo shoot but definitely owls. 

They visited late at dusk every evening for about three weeks. 

Then   . . .  well . . . I still watch for them.

 I guess you might say I did some serious bird watching in May. 

To celebrate my birthday, special friends Clara and Sara rode to Kentucky with me. 

Sara had some inside info on an eagle's nest that was especially visible

and info that there were baby eagles. 

So we found the spot. 

Honestly, it was a birthday gift just to be that close to an eagle's nest,

let alone to be able to just look up and see the young eagles. 

They were no longer babies, but had not gotten their color changes yet or left the nest. 

So here's some of what we saw. 

Enjoy!  I sure did. . . .

And perched aloft in a neighboring tree, a proud parent.

And this is my local guy out at Pigeon Creek at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge center.

And the old grey haired guy at Wolf Creek Causeway. 
He's always hanging out there. 

Waits for someone to throw him a fish.  Yeah !

 

And back home at Herrin City Park, we got the baby geese. 

Honestly, who doesn't love the  month of MAY !

Doris Frey © 2017