Good Friday April 3, 2026

Before I get on with my "out & about" blog post, I want to send along greetings for the season!  If you celebrate Easter then best wishes for a Happy Easter! The thought for this watercolour painting came to me out of the blue when my mind wandered off, which is happening lots lately, and I am thankful for that and enjoying it. In my last post, I shared a photo of a Robin and I said I liked Mother Nature's frame around it. Well, when I was googling Easter Baskets, I paired the results of that googling with my Robin photo.  This is the outcome!  Happy Easter!

Being the human that I am, I am supposedly hardwired to be a seasonal creature!  I have been enjoying the short teases of spring with warm weather, clear trails and that taste of crocus sightings a little while back. I am wired to be ready for spring!  Yet, this morning's "out & about" at Carburn Park was absolutely amazing after all the new snow that deluged the city yesterday. It felt like the first snowfall of late autumn. I embraced it and I loved it!    

This deer was crossing the trail to the bushes on the other side to.....

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.....join those already settled in the snow!  

After enjoying a wander along the snow covered trails through the trees, it was time to..... 

.....start birding!  A flock of Bohemian Waxwings means the end of winter as they continue to pass through  on their way to spend summer in the North part of the province.  This is a small part of the flock which probably numbered near one hundred.  

a close up of a trio of Bohemian Waxwings!  Soon the Cedar Waxwings will arrive. 

a Pelican with a "horn on its beak" 

This bump grows on both males and females and shows they are ready to mate.

Once breeding occurs, the bump falls off. 

This is one of five Ruby-crowned Kinglets!

Seeing these tells me winter is over, spring is here.

This is my first Mountain Bluebird sighting this season!  

Yes, spring is in the air!

I lost count of how many Robins were in the Park today!  

I like seeing them with snow!  

Two Trumpeter Swans stayed curled up!

The Canada Geese pair are back at the old Bald Eagle nest!

This is what I saw when I checked in on the Carburn Bald Eagles. I only saw the one today.  You can see the head above the snow.  There were ten of us doing a check-in.  We talked about the weather more than we talked about the Eagles.  

As time passed, it warmed up quite a bit and the snow began falling from the trees.  I got confused, was that a bird or was that snowing falling.  I was confused a lot!  I truly did love everything about today's wintry weather in the middle of spring!  So not to be confused in other aspects, I am doing an actual countdown until I get to live out a dream!