2020 Daily Photos

OWL NESTING - by Bill J Boyd

2-26-2020....Athena (Great Horned Owl) is back on her nest for 10th consecutive year. Nest is in corner planter just on upper right of arch. This is entrance to Lady Bird WFC and thousands of people pass through the arch every day. Athena does not mind the people. Eggs will hatch mid-March & owlets will fledge early May

TARANTULA FOR LUNCH by Bill J Boyd

2-25-2020....Yesterday at Lady Bird WFC our Roadrunner caught a Tarantula.

BLUEBONNETS - by Bill J Boyd

2-24-2020....Spring has arrived in Texas. I am starting to see patches of Bluebonnets. Temps will be in mid-70’s today.

PELICAN LANDING - by Bill J Boyd

2-23-2020....American White Pelican landing at White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas.

CAN YOU HEAR ME - by Bill J Boyd

2-22-2020...Yesterday at Lady Bird WFC in Austin. Bewick Wren is singing a song.

BEWICK WREN by Bill J Boyd

2-21-2020....Yesterday at Lady Bird WFC in Austin. The Bewick's wren is a wren native to North America. At about 14 cm long, it is grey-brown above, white below, with a long white eyebrow. While similar in appearance to the Carolina wren, it has a long tail that is tipped in white. The song is loud and melodious, much like the song of other wrens. Wikipedia

BLACK SWALLOWTAIL by Bill J Boyd

2-20-2020....A different view of butterfly I posted yesterday. This taken a few days ago at Lady Bird WFC when it was much warmer. Cold & rainy again today. Warmer temps in forecast for weekend.

BLACK SWALLOWTAIL by Bill J Boyd

2-19-2020....A few days ago when it was WARM, the butterfly were active at Lady Bird Wildflower Center in Austin. It is COLD and rainy today so I won’t be seeing them until we get warmer weather.

ATHENA - by Bill J Boyd

2-18-2020....Yesterday morning Athena (GHO) was sitting in a tree near her nest. Hoping to find her back on the nest incubating eggs this morning.

ATHENA IS BACK - Bill J Boyd

2-17-2020....Our Great Horned Owl (Athena) has returned to her nest for the 11th consecutive year at Lady Bird WFC in Austin. Nest is located about 10-feet above entrance arch & she doesn’t mind the hundreds of people that come by every day. Eggs will hatch mid-March and baby owlets will fledge by first of May. My Daily Photos here.... https://billjboydphotography.smugmug.com/Daily/2020-Daily-Photos/

Bill J Boyd - BLUEBONNET

2-16-2020....It is going to be an early Spring. The first Bluebonnet is up at Lady Bird WFC in Austin. Seems way to early.

Bill J Boyd - GREEN HERON

2-15-2020....Seen in east Austin. The green heron is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish". Wikipedia

Bill J Boyd - HUTTON VIREO

2-14-2020....Yesterday at Lady Bird WFC in Austin. This is a rare bird for central Texas. Yesterday was the first ever sighting at WFC and it increased our total bird species count up to 138. Hutton's vireo is a small songbird. It is approximately 5 inches in length, dull olive-gray above and below. It has a faint white eye ring and faint white wing bars. It closely resembles a ruby-crowned kinglet, but has a thicker bill and is slightly larger in size. Wikipedia

Austin Under Construction

2-13-2020....Austin, Texas.

Another Cedar Waxwing

2-12-2020....Seen at Lady Bird WFC.

Up Close

2-11-2020....Cedar Waxwing eating berries at Lady Bird WFC in Austin.

Cedar Waxwing

2-10-2020....Cedar Waxwings have returned to Lady Bird WFC in Austin, Texas.

Mexican Plum

2-9-2020....Early Spring bloom at Lady Bird WFC Bigtree or Mexican plum is a single-trunked, non-suckering tree, 15-35 ft. tall, with fragrant, showy, white flowers displayed before the leaves appear. Mature trunks become satiny, blue-gray with darker, horizontal striations. Leaves up to 5 inches long and 2 inches wide, ovate to narrower with serrate margins; minute glands on the petiole near the base of the blade. Plums turn from yellow to mauve to purple as they ripen from July through September. The common wild plum of the forest-prairie border from Missouri and eastern Kansas to Texas. The fruit is eaten fresh and made into preserves and is also consumed by birds and mammals. This species has served as a stock for grafting cultivated varieties of plums.

A View of Austin

2-8-2020....Cloudy day in Austin, Texas. Old photo processed using NIK’s Silver Efex Pro 2.

Roadrunner

2-7-2020....This is what I saw yesterday at Lady Bird WFC in Austin.

University of Texas Garden Gnome

2-6-2020....Lady Bird WFC is part of the University of Texas at Austin and this little gnome arrived yesterday.

Chevy

2-5-2020....From April 2016. This was at Heights Car Show in Richardson, Texas

Angels

2-4-2020....Bass Performance Hall, Ft Worth, Texas. The hall was first suggested by pianist Van Cliburn to philanthropist Nancy Lee Bass and her husband, Perry Richardson Bass.[2][3] It was built with limestone and designed by David M. Schwarz of Architectural Services, Inc. in 1998.[4] It is characteristic of the classic European opera house form. An 80-foot-diameter (24 m) Great Dome, artfully painted by Scott and Stuart Gentling, tops the Founders Concert Theater. Two 48-foot-tall (15 m) angels sculpted by Marton Varo from Texas limestone grace the Grand Façade.[5] It seats 2,056 people.

Lesser Goldfinch

2-3-2020....Yesterday at Lady Bird WFC. I think this is a Lesser Goldfinch.