wonderfully wide-eyed

A simply painted cheerful daffodil was the task accomplished before heading out the door to find even more cheer.  Just like the tulip, daffodils represent re-birth and new beginnings. It's that time of year as spring has sprung, where everything seems to come alive.  Before heading out the door, I took a quick glance at the flower and thought while it looks lovely on its own, there does need to be something else with it!  I will think again about that another time!  For now..... 

.....it was time for a visit to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary!  What a difference a week makes!  Last week's visit to the Sanctuary was like full on winter!  This was my view on this morning as I turned the corner onto the main trail. WOW! I was wide-eyed! I see new beginnings with all the open water in the lagoon and the trail clear of ice and snow! 

How wonderful!  This was my first sighting this year of a Bohemian Waxwing!  I did see where many have been sighted.  It's that time of year where they are passing through this area heading up to the far north where they will spend spring and summer. 

Well, the male Wood Duck sure looks wide-eyed!  

I was when I saw it, being my first sighting of one this season. 

Some Northern Flickers spend the winter here, but over the past couple of weeks they have been arriving by the dozens. Their calls echoed through The Sanctuary while their frolicking added entertainment which was wonderful to watch.  

"What are you looking at?" says the White-breasted Nuthatch!

It is all relative, while its eyes are tiny, they are still as wide-eyed as can be!

The Mountain Cottontail had a buffet for breakfast!

The Richardson's Ground Squirrels were out in full force. This was the first time I saw one this season. They are a rodent which gets a bad rap! They are cute though! AAAAH!  I just had a thought! I know what this Squirrel needs, it needs..... 

.....to be in the painting with the daffodil! 

I knew there was a Squirrel there yet it took a bit to fully find it!

WOW!  It perfected the art of camouflage!  

The male Mallard Duck was a bit more skittish than the female 

as they worked their way from the ice to the water.  

This is my favourite photo!  Talk about being skittish!  It was hilarious watching this deer cross the ice. Do you see what I see? Just be a little more wide-eyed and you will spot the deer at middle left watching.  It watched and it waited!  I wonder what a deer sounds like when it laughs! Instead of crossing the ice, it just needed to walk the short distance along the edge.

This was a day where I was bug-eyed and wide-eyed for the entire visit here!  

As each day passes, there will be more and more reasons to be wonderfully wide-eyed!