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Panoramic View of Birds

Mourning Doves — Click on image to see enlargement —

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Memory Lane

APRIL 2010

Blue Grosbeak — Apr. 2010

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Yesterday morning was one of the coldest morning for the area where I live. Worked on a metal key box combination because I needed some master keys for our Community pool storage rooms and take some measurements and inspect some other things that we may have to replace or add for next Summer. As the president of my HOA I needed to verify some works done previously.

While handling the locks and keys my fingertips were so cold that I was losing sense of touch. Then pain ensued and had to run to the car because I couldn’t feel my fingers anymore. It was many years that I didn’t feel that kind of intense cold. Good thing that I could finish my inspection and took the measurements I needed.

I returned home and I was so relieved of the pain once I warmed up and had a cup of hot coffee.

Being so bitterly cold did not deterred the birds from coming to my feeders, in fact I saw more birds than usual. That’s good!

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Field Sparrow

Carolina Chickadee

Northern Cardinal (M)

Song Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Northern Cardinal (F)

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Under the Weather

It is getting extremely boring to have one day of sunny day then torrential rain the next then gets windy and the temperature drop below freezing.

Yesterday morning we had snow flurries, then was sunny and bright for a few hours and again temperatures plunge to near zero. I’m getting annoy by this, All I do is write about weather.

To top it all I’m feeling under the weather… (There we go again!) with a sore throat and a runny nose since the day before and got worse next morning. I felt like going back to bed and do nothing for a while…that never happened!, in fact it turned out to be a busy day and had very little time for blogging. I’m taking some medicine that has worked well because I don’t feel lethargic any more and stopped the coughing.

I hope to be up to par tomorrow because I have a few more things to do that are important.

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