Purple wildflowers about the rocky hillocks
Two birds I have yet to film, the Black Billed Magpie, and the Yellow Headed Blackbird.
Both are striking, the black magpie has a very long tail w/white markings and when they fly, their wings are white when spread. Hard to capture a shot, they're wily. Both have very odd calls.
I nearly video'd a Yellow Headed Blackbird today. He's the bird I heard at the above pond site. He looked all yellow in the sun. Was just walking down the lane when I wondered if what I heard was a bird or a buzz saw! Yep, it was him, Ole Yeller Head.
Next we will enjoy the sound of the Black Billed Magpie: Take it away, Black Bill!
Can barely see the cabins for all the bloomin' trees now!
Cabin and ground covered with fallen blossom, not snow.
Columnar Basalt along the long and winding roads, a favorite marmot outcrop.
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Today I finally made time to visit the John Finch Arboretum ~
Lovely Lilacs are in bloom
Large bushes up to 8 ft or higher and well-bushed out.
Everywhere a treat for all the senses...sweet smell of blossoms, wet earth, (watering when I was there), pine and fir mulch, trickle of meandering creek, birds singing...and greens of every shade.
Shalom!
It was somewhere around here I caught the fluffy white tail of a cottontail rabbit
disappearing under a bush! An Easter Bunny escape? Also the ever-present marmots
and a pair of redtail hawks circling.
These huge basalt monoliths are looming everywhere throughout the park.
Read: The Columbia Basin has the largest basalt flow in the world!
Mossy Rock! Moss and lichen like it. Also plenty of pumice stone about.
Whomping Willow Trail follows along Garden Springs Creek ~
