Birds of the Day — Gray Catbird, Blue Jay, and Northern Cardinal.
Birds of the Day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers of the day — Red, Pink, Oriental, and California Poppies. Foxglove, Love-in-a-mist, Blue Chicory, Daisy, and Lance-leaf Coreopsis .
Poppies. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Wildflowers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Daily Electric Energy Used (51.1 kWh) from meter reading. The daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (88.9 kWh) from meter reading. Much more sun. A surplus of 37.8 kWh.
Birds of the Day — House Finch, Northern Cardinal, Black-capped Chickadee, Mourning Dove, and Eastern Phoebe.
Birds of the Day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers of the day — Red, Pink, Icelandic, Oriental, and California Poppies. Foxglove, Spiderwort, Love-in-a-Mist, Evening Primrose, Daisy, Sweet William, Lance-leaf Coreopsis, Rhododendron, and Tulip Tree.
Poppies — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Poppies — Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Flowers — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Flowers — Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Daily Electric Energy Used (42.2 kWh) from meter reading. The daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (53.4 kWh) from meter reading. Lots of clouds during the day. A surplus of 11.2 kWh. Power glitch and outage during the day.
First Butterfly of the season — an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail feeding on the Rhododendron flowers.
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on Rhododendron flowers. Image taken with a Nikon Df camera and 70-300 mm lens (ISO 500, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
Birds of the Day — Gray Catbird, Northern Cardinal, House Finch, and Eastern Phoebe. The large nestling, in the Eastern Phoebe nest was finally convinced to jump out of the nest. The now fledgling spent the night on a cardboard box just under the nest. I suspect the fledgling is a Brown-headed Cowbird (later confirmed by the reviewers from eBird).
cBirds of the Day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Eastern Phoebe Nest with a Brown-headed Cowbird chick. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers of the day — Red, Pink, Icelandic, Oriental, and California Poppies. White Allium, Foxglove, Bachelor Button, Cornflower, Baby Blue Eyes, Spiderwort, Johnny Jump Up, Love-in-a-Mist, Evening Primrose, Daisy, Sweet William, Lance-leaf Coreopsis, Beard Tongue, Baby’s Breath, Rhododendron, and Tulip Tree.
Poppies — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Poppies — Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Flowers — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Flowers — Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Daily Electric Energy Used (40.5 kWh) from meter readings the Sense Home Energy Monitor. The daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (48.6 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Lots of clouds during the day. A surplus of 8.1 kWh.
Birds of the Day — Brown-headed Cowbird, Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, and Eastern Phoebe. The Eastern Phoebes are feeding the two remaining young chicks in the nest. One of the chicks is larger and dominating the nest. I see the parents trying to tempt the larger chick to leave the nest.
Birds of the Day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers of the day — California, Oriental, Red, Pink and Icelandic Poppies; Foxglove, Spiderwork, and Daisy.
Poppy flowers — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Poppy flowers — Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Poppy flowers — Landscape II. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Daily Electric Energy Used (41.9 kWh) from meter readings the Sense Home Energy Monitor. The daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (78.0 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. A surplus of 36.1 kWh.
Birds of the Day — Brown-headed Cowbird, House Finch, Northern Cardinal, Pileated Woodpecker, and Eastern Phoebe. I haven’t seen the Pileated Woodpecker in my yard for some time. I’ve heard it working on the neighbors trees looking for grubs. The Eastern Phoebes are back to just feeding the two young chicks in the nest.
Birds of the Day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Pileated Woodpecker. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring flowers of the day — Poppies (California, Oriental, Red), Bachelor Button, Crimson Clover, Tulip Tree, Cornflower, Forget-me-not, Rhododendron, Baby Blue Eyes, and Johnny Jump Up, Evening Primrose, and Daisy.
Spring Flowers of the Day – Portrait. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Spring Flowers of the Day — Landscape. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
I got part of the yard mowed before it started raining. Time-lapse video recorded using a Garmin VIRB-360 camera
Daily Electric Energy Used (47.3 kWh) from meter readings the Sense Home Energy Monitor. The daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (24.9 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Fog in the morning and clouds in the afternoon. A deficit of 22.4 kWh.
