Hanging out in the Sandhills, NC

Howdee all,

Have you ever had an alarm clock that you can seem to reset or turn off..

We have an alarm clock ..for the past three days it has been going off at 5:30 and it cant be turned off…it goes off for at least ten minutes…and then stops..

Turn your volume up and listen to our Alarm clock..

 

Yep…we have been waking up at the crack of Whip-poor-will..

The birds sits on my sisters rooftop close to our bedroom window and sings its heart out…Guess it thinks we should be up..

So, I wake up and stay up..and go outside and listen to the birds..

   We usually arrive in NC in April..this year we have arrived a month later..

Things are different now..

Its warmer, the birds I normally see are not around, my feeders are pretty much empty…Where are my Indigo buntings? Where are the Rose-breasted grosbeaks? I did see one Blue Grosbeak but it didn't come to the feeder..

The Eastern Bluebirds already have chicks…Last year, when we left they had just checked out the nest boxes.

We did see an American Redstart and a Summer tanager amongst other birds..but..somehow..its different..slower…

    So I find other things to look at…My sickstas beautiful flowers…

  We visited one of our favorite local birding spots..

Weymouth woods…

Home of the Red-cockaded woodpecker, Brown-headed nuthatch and Bachman's sparrow..

We always see them when we visit..

Yesterday the local bird bander was there..she said that it has been slow..she is also wondering what's happening..Some of the birds have arrived later than usual..Some in less numbers..

Female Black throated Blue Warbler

Soooo..when the birding is slower than usual..there are always other beautiful things to see..

Glowing spider webs..

Flies hanging out on leaves Dragonflies

Sunlit water…

Sunlit leaves.. Are these going to be blueberries?

Spider with egg case Green metalic Beetles..

We did see and hear birds.

Prairie, Black and white, Prothonatary,Pine,Black-throated Blue Wablers, Northern Parula, Red-cockaded woodpecker, Bachmans and chipping sparrows. Brown headed nuthatch..Eastern Wood Pewee, Carolina Wren, Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee

Great-crested Flycatcher with nesting material

And ..the entertaining…Pileated woodpecker

  So…here we are in the Sandhills of North Carolina..

Parked at Sickstas and Ghetto Boys resort for a month...Lovely gardens,fish pond, swimming pool..two pups..

Life is Good