Still Awaiting Autumnal Colours and Temperatures~

~Still Awaiting Autumnal Colours and Temperatures~

We are still having Summer like weather and we are worn down from having to water, water, water so much to keep green, or at best alive.  

Yet, we are thankful and blessed that we have had no natural disasters as so many are having both nation and world wide.  

We have lost grasses, shrubs, trees and there isn't much that can be done, other than give them a bit of water.  

The hoses can only reach so far on the acreage.  

I will have a month to catch up with many of you for the appointments are behind me as of today.

WHEW!  

Surgery is tomorrow and I cannot drive for a month.  Huge Sigh, but the end of that time will hopefully begin to improve my gait and end my bone on bone pain.  It has been a terrible Summer and I have had some anxious moments, but I am looking at tomorrow with great hope~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after                                                                you have read the narratives~

I am joining in the fun with Eileen at:

http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/

Saturday's Critter

Anni at:

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I'd Rather Be Birdin'

 Linking to I'd Rather B Birdin'

    

Maggie's  MOSAIC MONDAY

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Stewart for:

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Wild Bird Wednesday

Above a wee Chickadee in our Firebush and below...kind of endearing is a walnut that a Squirrel placed to have for later.  We have Walnut trees but quite a distance from this Honeysuckle bush and I imagine that a young Squirrel thought it looked safe there~

Saturday I looked in our creek and found a little bird that I don't believe I have seen before, or if I have not very often.  A Black-throated Green Warbler~

A spot of colour~

The Northern Mockingbirds were sparring for territory one recent Sunday morning.  One will take over an area for the entire Winter~

Black Bellied Plover, juvenile was all on it's own for several days last month.  

A first for me~

Just pretty Virginia Creeper growing up the limestone walls along the highway~

Our last straggler Ruby-throated Hummingbirds finally flew off into the sunset last week~

Honeysuckle Vine berries is what is all over our land awaiting the Cedar Waxwings.  I am thinking that I may miss hundreds as I shall be laid up following surgery in the morning...

Not at all happy about that~

House Finches are all over in their lovely colours this time of year~

I believe in global warming!  

We here in KY for the past few years have witnessed things we have never before seen.  Kentucky is the fastest weather changing state in the United States.  

The Autumnal berries are abundant and resting alongside next Spring's flower buds already blossoming from the long hot Summer type weather~

Great Blue Heron~

Touch of muted Autumnal colours.  

Much is just turning brown and falling to earth with no colour change~

Heavy fog one morning at dawn.  

A pair of Red-tailed Hawks in the distance preening together~

Red-Shouldered Hawk landing across the lane from where I had parked my car and then preening and stretching~

Harassed by an American Crow~

More Virginia Creeper on Tingsgrove~

American Crow eating seeds high above me~

These are called Strawberry Firebush seed pods.  

I am going to get some seeds to plant for next Spring~

The Wee Little Birds and Some ID Help Needed~

Happy first week in November...

But oh my goodness, where did this year flee so quickly off to?  

Did I miss it? 

I had said that I would be sharing more Cedar Waxwings, as well as I want to share some European Starling images, but this week, I needed to go ahead and squeak these wee little birds through as I don't want too many Autumnal image shares to fall into the Winter starkness and get me all confused,  and befuddled any more than I am ;)

OK, so I know most of these wee birds, but some came to Tingsgrove to pay a quick visit and I want to make sure I have them with their good identification.  

Sparrows and Warblers, they all look so much alike and I get all confused...huge sigh!

Thank you to anyone who can help me with this~

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Mosaic Monday

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Stewart for:

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Wild Bird Wednesday

Is this not the cutest, sweetest little bird! 
I know it is a Warbler, but just not sure which one.
It may be one that I will try an ID below but I promise I have looked in my NWF Field Guide to Birds and I am just not sure.
UPDATE 11/10/15
I met Brian Davis one day out on a snow covered field looking at some beautiful Snow Buntings that had come for a visit in our area.  He is a fellow birder with a lot more experience with identification than I do and he has identified this beauty as  first year Black-throated Green Warbler.  It just has not developed it's black bib yet~

I think that from the millions of leaves that will fall... I found the perfect one ;)

One day this beauty was flitting around, gathering some nutrition and then gone.  It reminded me of a Tanager that came around before, but it may also be a visiting Warbler, or maybe a real surprise~
I think that both Eileen Wise and Brian Davis got this one for me...
It is a Summer Tanager.  
Thank you both~

  Only these two images were taken of a Black and White Warbler.  
Now that was fairly easy ;)~

OK my best guess for this little one would be Pine Warbler.  If that is what it is, then this would maybe be my first time to see one, not certain~

Eileen Hildt Wise...Viewing nature with Eileen is thinking more on the lines of 
Magnolia Warbler for this little beauty.  If so that is also new for me here.  
Brian Davis agreed totally with Eileen's guess for this little female Magnolia Warbler.
Thank you both~

A Maple tree leaf fell into the grasp of a large Oak tree leaf, and the sun's glow, showed it to me~

The only image of the wee one on the left and I believe the one on the right is the same wee bird that I began this post with~

Not sure about the wee one on the left. other than once again most probably a visiting Warbler.  

As for the one on the right, I am thinking that once the post introduction bird has an ID then that is what this one is too.
Brian Davis has identified these two little beauties.  
The one on the left is a female Black-throated Green Warbler and the one on the right is the male, as seen in top four images as well~

More autumnal colours on my land and I used a touch of HDR with a few, just for fun~

OK, hmm let me guess, the perfect clue...it's rump...a Yellow-Rumped Warbler, sweet~

The wee bird below is really, really small and it is a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and the third image is certainly wild feather on left~

Thank you wee one for turning your head so I can see that beautiful crown of yours...a Golden Crowned Kinglet
Now these I knew, but had them backwards, but thank you to Brian Davis, for straightening me out ;) ~

This bird was eating Honeysuckle berries and came in and left from behind the bush.  I only got these two images.  Maybe a Thrush, has a light yellowing under the tail feathers.
Update on this little one as well. 
Brian Davis is thinking that this is a Hermit Thrush
Brian, and Eileen, many thanks to each of you for helping me learn about new birds that I have seen~