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But no Blue Jay. He was coming in really close yesterday, but never when I had my camera on me.

Because why not.

Now this one is long dead-headed, but it was still a pretty picture.

But not too active.

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

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 …

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

More bucket tulips.

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

I tend to just call them french fry birds.

We took a short wander around frog pond yesterday. There was geese, deer, squirrels and ducklings!

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.