4 August 2024 Mentor Lagoons Visit

It was a special evening birdingat Mentor Lagoons...

3 August 2024 Sunny Lake Visit

My journey started with a fritillary gathering nectar on flowers.

Turtle Town

Mallards beside the shore with another turtle nearby.

Coneflower in Bloom

Goldfinch up high

2 August 2024 Unusual Sightings at Orchard Hills

It was a day for blue birds from different families. A bluebird on top of a the posts sits atop a well used birdbox. In the image below an rare, for me, indigo bunting sits perched with some floofed-out feathers.

I'm believe this was my first and so far only spotting of a crossblill

There were still plenty of goldfinch to brighten my day.

1 August 2024 Birding at Sunny Lake

With business meetings over, I was happy to spot and wash away a tough time with a visit to Sunny Lake

30 July 2024 Concert I Didn't Want To Attend

Def Leppard Journey Cheap Trick... For some this would have been the concert of the year. I was driving back from a business trip and dealing with the loss of a close family member. The bands with the exception of Journey didn't excite me. It was "entertainment" for a management meeting. I really needed sleep more than this. All I wanted to do was leave.

28 July 2024 Returning Home

It was a short day geocaching with a drive home awaiting and a work day tomorrow. We stopped on the way home to see the Leatherlips statue marking Wyandot nation's Chief Chief Leatherlips.

With our visit completed, a few geocaches found, and a nice pair of barn swallows it was time to head home.

This curly-tailed squirrel seemed to enjoy seeing us. It was the last spotting before we were headed home.

27 July 2024 Geocaching Around Columbus

Finding Royal Catchfly in the Fields is a Treat.

Purple Coneflower

Turtle Beach

An Unidentified Small Butterfly

Killdeer at the water's edge

Turtle Swim!

Killdeer at water's edge

Dragonfly

Beautiful Egret

A geocache hidden at a small abandoned junk yard was a huge contrast to the day's sightings.