Good morning everyone and welcome to our special edition of the Daily Pics series!  Now, you might just say, “what is different?”.  I admit, it doesn’t look very different, but it is as you will see as we go along today.  I hope you will enjoy it.  There is nothing like starting the day with a hot cup of coffee (I think I heard that somewhere before) and sitting on a nice bench down by the river. 

There we can enjoy the beautiful scenery and listen to the many birds singing away from the trees.  And sometimes swinging away from the trees or crawling all over the trees like this little “brown creeper”.  It spends the day starting near the bottom of a tree trunk, usually, and climbing in a spiral way up the tree looking for insects.  Then on to the next tree to do the same thing.  And on and on throughout the day.  I followed this little bird around for 20 minutes before finally getting it’s pic.

Yesterday we saw a couple of pelicans soaring together from the previous day and now we have another one soaring alone and coming out a bit more clear than the other two.  It is terribly hard to get these birds in perfect focus since they are constantly moving and I am standing there looking straight up and trying hard not to get dizzy and fall down and break all my arms, or something.

And there is so much incredible scenery along the shores of this river, every direction, on both sides of the river.  Like this look down the path from the bench where I’m sitting yesterday.  A path among the many pines, and some other trees too, gives it a very relaxing feel.

And then, along with all the other wildlife we get to meet a very tiny bird, the chipping sparrow.  This is our smallest sparrow, about the size of a chickadee, and a very friendly little bird.  I have had these little birds sit on my hand which is always fun.  They just arrived yesterday, a few days earlier than usual, their normal time is around May 5th, and they don’t usually change that date much.

Well, I hope you have enjoyed our special edition today.  Happy Friday to all of you, stay safe and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2020 Steve McLeod.

Hello everyone and welcome to my second tag for 10 things that make me HAPPY!  I was tagged for this wonderful HAPPY tag by my friend Mrs. Holliman, thank you so very much for thinking of me for this great tag!!  If you have not yet checked out Mrs. Holliman’s blog, please do visit her, give her a follow and get yourself a blessing!

For a smile as wide as a country sunrise!

The Rules:

1. List 10 things that make you happy. (Linking to them, sharing pictures, writing poems about them, telling jokes, etc. are all encouraged but not required.)

2. Tag 10 people who make you happy (and notify them of their tag).

My List Of Ten Things That Make Me Happy:

1. Coffee!  It is definitely the best way to start my day, with a nice hot cup of black coffee!

2. My Path To The River!  So beautiful to have such a lovely path to walk each day, just enjoying all the wonders of nature along the way.

3. Sitting At The River!  That truly is something that makes me very happy, to just sit on my favorite bench overlooking the river and watching all the bird activity or just enjoying the wonderful scenery.

4. Early Morning!  I am definitely a morning person and love to be up early and out on my deck with a cup of coffee before sunrise.

5. Sunrise!  Makes sense if I love early morning, I would also love sunrises too and it is so beautiful to watch the sun coming up over the hill and trees giving it’s golden glow to everything.

6. Listening To Birds Sing!  To me there is no better choir around than that of a symphony of birds singing early in the morning.

7. A Chipmunk On My Knee!  Something so simple and yet brings such joy and if there is any stress around it quickly disappears with a cute chipmunk on my knee filling his cheeks with peanuts.

8. A Bird On My Hand!  Having a bird sitting on my hand or just taking food from my hand certainly makes me happy and so far 18 different species have done so.  Plus I have had as many as 22 birds sitting on me at one time.  Such a joy!

9. Collecting!  Guess I’m just not the minimalist type of person, I enjoy having a room “full”, but not cluttered to the point of being just a mess.  I like things neat and orderly.  But I don’t like “empty”, with all the time I spend indoors during our long winters, an empty place would bring too much stress.

10. Playing With Muffin! These 10 things are not in any particular order, playing with Muffin each day definitely brings a LOT of happiness and fun for both of us!

Well, there we have my 10 things to add to my last list of 10 things and I know there are lots more that I could add to that list if I should ever receive this tag again.  Thanks once again Mrs. Holliman!

AND NOW, I TAG THESE PEOPLE:

Sheree

Yonnie

Eshal

Peregrine

Ramyani

Pene

Renee

Rossana

That’s it for now folks, have a wonderful evening or morning, wherever you happen to live, please stay safe and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2020 Steve McLeod.