They look like sweet little aliens. 😍

It was nice hiding behind the bird blind :)

It's been very windy on and off, so the flowers haven't done the best :(

It has a lovely song!

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊
There are also many red winged blackbirds around. Sometimes the female could look like a Savannah sparrow, although the sparrows are much smaller.

A single purple tulip that is starting to curl

A field of tulips in red, yellow, and purple

A closeup of the tulip field

Tulip season is almost over before it begins!

#flowers #tulips

Purple lilac

Pink lilac

Lilac season

#flowers

A killdeer in the swamp

A killdeer is easy to miss when it's quiet.

#birds #shorebirds

An orange crowned warbler

The orange-crowned warbler doesn't really show its orange crown.

#birds #warblers

A barred owl

Looking up at a barred owl

Another view of a barred owl just above me

There is also my neighborhood's barred owl taking a mid-day nap :)

@kimberwitch.bsky.social

#birds #owls

A sparrow

I hope this is a Savannah sparrow?

#birds #sparrows

A great horned owl

Surprise! A great horned owl in the forest!

@kimberwitch.bsky.social #birds #owls

A zoomed out blurry photo of the northern parula, a tiny warbler with grey body and a yellow front

A zoomed out blurry photo of the northern parula, a tiny warbler with grey body and a yellow front

The northern parula is somewhere up in this tree

The northern parulas were singing loudly in the forest. They were way up high in the tree and were very sneaky. This is the best I could do. They are one of my favorite warblers!

#birds #warblers

A black bird with an orange belly is singing

A singing Eastern Towhee

#birds

A greater yellowlegs is landing in a pond

A greater yellowlegs!

#birds #shorebirds

a yellow rumped warbler

Yellow rumped warblers are everywhere!
Spring is here!

#birds

A ruby crowned kinglet with just a tiny ruby

A tiny smidge of ruby red on this tiny ruby crowned kinglet hiding among a bunch of yellow rumped warblers.

#birds

Didn't someone else just report on a similar trend in UT last week?

The general public needs to know not everyone gets Medicare, and Medicare only covers a short stint at a nursing home. If you run out of money and can't get on Medicaid quickly enough, well

:(

Driver arrested weeks after deadly Chinatown crash that killed father of two San Francisco police arrested a 76-year-old man in connection with a crash in Chinatown that killed a 49-year-old father and injured another pedestrian.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

San Francisco sounds like a very dangerous city for pedestrians. How many times has this happened already?

Our Father in ASL with Bishop Pedro Bismarck Chau YouTube video by Newark Archdiocese

youtube.com/shorts/npeyF...

It's National ASL Day!

They counted on a rural dialysis unit to keep them alive. Then it closed A hospital in Nebraska shut down the only dialysis unit for miles, upending lives. That's despite a new federal program that gave the state more than $200 million to improve rural health care access.

www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...

Where is the money going if not for the people? :-/

Maybe we need more staffers who grew up on farms. Able to handle blood and guts with sensibility 😆

VCA makes solid organ transplant look like a walk in the park. Muscle, nerves, and veins are complicated enough. Throw in bones and skin?

Maybe they need more farmers, especially hog farmers, in the audience. 😆

The former mayor of LA cheated on his first wife multiple times, including when she's fighting cancer. She's just a quiet school teacher who stayed in the background. Why do people forget that?

Will California wake up?
At least one of the remaining Dems cheated on his ex-wife, and at least one allegedly treated her staff poorly.

Meanwhile, hardworking good people are polling at 1%?!

Thank you! It's a little blurry not knowing when and where to aim. :)

Given how/ what the Catholic Church did during WWII... the concept of MAGA Catholics isn't all that odd.

Older adults are being discharged out of long-term care facilities — and into homelessness Nursing homes are supposed to find a safe destination for residents discharging out of their care. But officials have noticed an increasing number of older adults discharged into homelessness.

Nursing homes are supposed to find a safe destination for residents discharging out of their care. But officials have noticed an increasing number of older adults discharged into homelessness.

Golden crowned kinglet in a pine tree

This golden crowned kinglet is playing hard to get

#birds