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Crows in the Trees

Crows are one of my favourite birds to watch. They have really cool habits and routines.

Crow chilling on a branch

They are also one of the birds that I have a very hard time taking a picture of. They really don't play nice with with auto-focus, and they don't stop moving very often, so …

The bees

I think all the bees left the hive for for 30min right around noon. These are a couple clips from the backyard camera.

The first is sped up 7x for most of it, the second one is at normal speed.

And regular speed

Bumble bees and flowers

The flowers are popping now, the apple blossoms are almost full out and the lilac trees will all be open this week.

Bugs like tulips

I haven't seen a lot of bee action around the tulips this year. I'm not sure if its the time of year, my timing or the flowers.

I have seen a lot of smaller flying insects in and around them though.

Frog Pond Forest Bath

I took the kids to Frog Pond for snack and it was awesome. We saw a deer run by the path and I pulled out the camera. We didn't see any more deer, but we did see a couple geese land.

Canada Geese Landing

Canada Geese Landing

And little ducklings.

ducklings

There are 5 …

Buckets of tulips

All of the tulips are popping right now. I am taking lots and lots of pictures and just limited on time. I added over 366 photos yesterday [*], which sounds like a backlog, but maybe I will clear them all out today.

tulips in felt Buckets

The aforementioned buckets of flowers (some of them)

[*]This …