Crops & Clips: Flashback to April, 2020

As I do on the first Thursday of each month, I enjoy looking back over my archived photos, taken three years previously, to remember how things were then as contrasting with events this year at our new home in Connecticut. As usual, I searched for images which reflected favorite memes: critters of all kinds (especially birds), skies and clouds, reflections, flowers and scenes which speak for themselves.

On April 1, I visited the local Bald  Eagle nest to check on the welfare of the two eaglets which were about two weeks old. When I arrived, the female was roosting above the nest:

She flew down to the nest and fed the larger eaglet, probably the first hatched:

On April 3, as MaryLou and I  were walking into the wetlands, an Eastern Screech-Owl was roosting on a street sign:

A Barn Owl uttered a coarse call from the top of a Royal Palm. I would later find its nest nearby:

Loggerhead Shrike posed in early morning light:

Bobcat sightings were becoming more frequent:

A Raccoon rushed across the path in front of us:

Another Raccoon reflected in the flooded tracks of off-road vehicles:

White-tailed Deer group into same-sex flocks during the non-breeding season. We startled these does in early morning twilight:

In our back yard, a female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker visited sap wells on the Mahogany tree:

  

Songbird migration was warming up. Among the transients were Cape May Warblers...

...an American Redstart...

...and a Blackpoll Warbler:

By the end of the month, both eaglets had grown considerably but they will not fledge until late May:

Adult male Bald Eagle in flight over the Wounded Wetlands:

A male Anhinga basked on the duck decoy which floats our irrigation sprinkler intake:

 

A Tricolored Heron waded at the edge of our back lawn:

Boat-tailed Grackle males displayed on the clay roof tiles of a neighbor's home:

Pond-apple flower with developing fruit:

Zebra heliconian and White Peacock on Lantana blossoms: 

A thunderhead cast a long shadow before sunrise on April 20:

A few minutes later, clouds reflected on the lake's surface:

This week's header: Male Bald Eagle

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Linking to:

Nature Thursday

Skywatch Friday

Weekend Reflections

Saturday's Critters

BirdD'Pot

Garden Affair

All Seasons

Image-in-ing

Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday)

Wild Bird Wednesday

My Corner of the World
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Please visit the links to all these posts to see some excellent photos on display
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