Swan's Night and Morning Doves...

The Swans came last night at dusk.  Only the Male came up into the yard and was scouring for seeds that had dropped from the feeder.  I threw him a few bits of bread.  And then he wandered back to the water and disappeared with his mate off into the darkness.  You can see the street light on the street behind us...

Always the view through my window and too cold to open it up so the reflection from the room is in the glass-ha!

He managed to find some fallen seed from the feeder.

and then he bid a fond farewell and strolled into the darkness...

This morning, we were greeted by the Mourning Doves who frequent our yard.  They, too were scouring the ground under our many feeders looking for seeds.  I love their feathers and the beautiful design.

They always come in pairs and when I went to snap pictures through the window, the squirrel chased one away-ha!  He did not take fly, just waddled swiftly away!

I really do feel for you that have so much snow but I really hate looking at the browns of winter as seen in these pictures.  Snow is serene and beautiful to see...

Color your day a Rainbow !

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♥KERRIE♥

My heart to yours...

Today's Walk

I did not walk until late afternoon and the sun was still brilliant.  The reflections on the larger lakes in our community were like a mirror....

The day moon was high in the sky over the long leaf pine trees.  I love seeing the moon in day as well as night time!

I could not believe the reflections on the still lakes today!  They were perfect!

This Great Blue Heron was soooo large, that at first I thought he was a Wood Stork!  I just kept snapping and the quality fo the pictures are not as good as I would like, but it still shows how large he was.  The muscles in his legs were so powerful!

It was so cold out that I had to wear my scarf and my winter jacket but well worth the effort.  There is nothing like sunshine and fresh air to clean up your attitude and get the cobwebs out of your brain-LOL! 

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♥KERRIE♥

My heart to yours...

FRIDAY'S WILDLIFE AND QUICK PHOTO SHOTS

I usually feature the little lake behind our house but with the ice on it, none of the regular visitors have come in a few days.  BUT, I ventured out into the beautiful sunshine today bundled up and armed with my digital camera and visited all the Lakes in the neighborhood.  Here is what I snapped before the batteries died. LOL!

Great White Egret fishing near the bank.

2 Female and 1 Mail Mallard on an island

A beautiful lake near the front of our Community

This little Dock is on one of the largest Lakes and many people put a dock out so that they can sit over the water in the warmer weather.  I would love that but Hubby is not well enough to take on a project like this!  There is something magic about being near water.  My friend, Doris Strum has a beautiful lake that she visits and takes stunning pictures.  Please pop over to see Doris when you can.  She also crochets the most delightful things and has an Etsy shop where she sells them.

There are many little islands in the Lakes in our neighborhood and the Mallards, Egrets and all wading birds find great resting places there.

It was certainly a perfect day for snapping pictures!  I saw the little hooded ducks again that I cannot identify but my camera batteries had died and they quickly swam away from my spying eyes-ha!  They look like a hooded Merganser but their heads are completely black and black and white are the only colors on their bodies.  One day I will get a good picture I am hoping.

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♥KERRIE♥
My heart to yours...

ICE ON THE POND...



Greeted this morning by hungry Blue Jays, freezing temperatures and Ice on the Pond!


It looks warm, but it is not!!  No aquatic bird visits today with the ice on the pond.  I miss the Swans, Egrets, Great Blue Heron, who all hang out at the larger lake in our community where it is not covered with ice because it is deeper. And yet there is beauty in the ice with it's bluish color and stark whiteness...

My little frog figures that my cousin painted for me are a comical contrast to the ice in their skimpy bathing suits-Ha!

I am so wanting our usual, more normal SC temperatures for this time of year to return!  I know that Global warming is a real problem looming over us but it is hard to believe it exists with the whole U.S. having freezing temps and only Florida without snow!  Hmmm!

Thank you for visiting and come back soon.  I miss you when you do not come.  We can have a nice hot cup of coffee, cocoa or tea and chat awhile.  And I can always find something to giggle about, how about you?

♥KERRIE♥
My heart to yours...    

Yellow Throated Warbler

Yellow Throated Warbler

The Yellow Throated Warbler (s) have been hanging around every day in the feeders and we love watching them! Hubby made this log feeder by drilling out circles in the log and then filling the holes with peanut butter and seed. All the birds love this and come all day long. It was only 23 when we got up this morning and is now only 28 degrees. If it weren't for the beautiful sunshine, it would be a depressing day!

Monday when the snow was falling and dusting the shed roof, the little sparrows came to the shed feeder in groups!  Here they are below with one in mid-air as I snapped the picture through the window.

I am wanting Typical wether to return for SC for this time of the year.  We thought we left this cold winter weather in NYS when we moved here 22 yrs. ago! Ha!  Hope you are staying warm wherever you are today.  The news said Florida is the only State not having snow but it only has temperatures in the 30's!!

Come back soon to visit, thank you for stopping by.

♥KERRIE♥

My heart to yours...

Snowing in SC

Goodness, second year in a row we have had on and off snow flurries in SC! Hmmm! This was yesterday:

Mergansers are back

Here is a pic of this morning:

                                      

And the squirrel has completely taken over the oldest birdhouse, remodeled the doorway to accommodate his size and hangs out there all the day. Today he is in there to get out of the snow! It snowed for at least an hour this morning closing our local schools but no accumulation on our South end of the Grand Strand. Now it is pouring rain and I think I preferred the gentle falling of the snow flakes.

Isn't he just precious?  My daughter feeds him peanuts and he eats them with his head outside or takes them to the ground.  I told her he does not want to mess the house up-ha!
So it continues to be a gloomy day and I still cannot download pictures in the new program unless I leave the blog each time and sign back in.  Are any of you having trouble with down loading your photos??  There are a ton of messages on Blog support but Blogspot is not answering them.  And other bloggers suggestions do not work at all.

Bye for now, come again soon, Hugs to all you nature and wildlife lovers!

♥KERRIE♥
My heart to yours...

A CARDINAL MORNING

It was a Cardinal Morning when I rose today! First in the top of the bare Bradford Pear tree and then on the shed feeder. All the pictures were taken through the window over my computer with my little Sanyo 4X Digital camera. I love Cardinals so much!

Then some really pretty common sparrows came to visit.
Is anyone else having trouble downloading photos??  The last 2 days I have not been able to download them to my blog unless I get out of the program and the blog and come back again!  I went to help and it said to change back to the "OLD Download" in Settings, that did not work either-Help!

Please comment or e-mail me if you can help!  The others that had problems in help did not get answers either regarding photo upload problems!  Thanks!