American Bushtit. I love those #angrybird eyes 👁️ #birds #nature

My favorite cucumber-the lemon cucumber. This year’s crop looks good. 🌱 #PNWgardening 🌿

A little bit scary #EyeOfTheWild. Band-Tailed Pigeon, native to the #PNW. #bird #BirdOfTheDay

#LastBird on my camera roll is a freshly bathed juvenile Black-Headed Grosbeak. #birds #BirdOfTheDay

Cedar Waxwing visiting today. #birds 🪶

Here’s a young Nuthatch learning how to forage - it’s fun to watch its little tongue darting for tasty treats. #birds #nature

Baby nuthatch learning the proper way to bathe. Sound on to hear its calls. 🪶 #birds

16 species in 5 minutes of Merlin in my urban backyard habitat. Mostly heard and not seen. Love the diversity. #birds #nature

Monday morning cuteness overload!!! 🦉🪶 #birds

Wings and tail in full display as well as this RedTailed Hawk’s #BestSideEye #birds #BirdOfTheDay

Sweet Robin gazing upward. #BirdOfTheDay #UpAndDown #birds

I’m building a new tiny #wildlifepond. Using Bentonite clay instead of a liner. This one will be a shallow pond mainly for birds and insects. Using only native plants including a marsh milkweed. 🌱 #nativeplants #gardening

More footage of the Red-tailed Hawk in my garden. At first I thought it had injured its wing, but ultimately it was fine and happy with its catch (so was I). #birds #PNWgardening #nature

Red-tailed Hawk in my garden with a rat! 🪶 🦅 #birds #nature #raptors

I love warblers of all kinds. Here are a few of my favorites. 🪶 #BirdsILove #birds #BirdOfTheDay #warblers

This Savanna Sparrow is a real #Cutie. #BirdOfTheDay #birds I don’t see them often so this was a treat. 🪶

Bowl cats! #Caturday

Killdeer nest still going strong. The eggs were laid just inside a horse run but the nesting pair chose the oldest horse’s stall who doesn’t use the run much. So far so good. 🤞🏼. #birds #nature 🪶

Loads of #Quackers here. Mallards and Green winged Teal. #BirdOfTheDay #birds 🪶 🦆

Garlic cleaned and braided! I harvested ahead of the rains so they’ve been drying for a few weeks. They’ll hang in an indoor cool location until the Fall. 🌱 #PNWgardening 🧄 #gardening

Male Cooper’s Hawk hoping for a score. His name is Brad 😎 🦅 🪶 #raptors #birds

And here she is incubating them #birds

A mama Killdeer leading me away from her 4 beautiful eggs 🪶 #birds 🥚 #nature

The beautiful Western Tiger Swallowtail. 🦋 #PollinatorWeek 📷 #nature 🌱

Morning greeter! This is a garden snail upside down on my greenhouse window screen. 🌱 🐌 🐚 #PNW #gardening #snails

A Song Sparrow catching the morning light. #Birds&Bokeh. #BirdOfTheDay #birds 🪶

Agreed!

Fully bathed and proud of it! Red-breasted Sapsucker cooling off in the heat. 🪶 #woodpeckers #birds #nature

So well camouflaged! I think this is a marsh meadow grasshopper. #insects 🦗 #nature.