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The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.
We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the comments below.
Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the phenological patterns that are quietly unwinding around us. To have the Daily Bucket in your Activity Stream, visit Backyard Science’s profile page and click on Follow.
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On the way out there I took some photos.
Just off the bicycle path, inside the entrance to the Feather River Learning Landscape Outdoor Classroom, Boyle Creek had risen and was spreading out. This will have decreased significantly by the time this diary is published.
The American Robin were out today in good force. In this tree, five together.
Over in another tree a congregation of thirteen.
My “hawk on a sock” was in place for the moment.
Red-tailed Hawk, on the old wind directional sock at the airport.
Once at the wastewater treatment plant I set my camera on the tripod and over the course of about an hour took five videos. Here is an edited compilation, about three minutes:
The Common Goldeneye is one of the more splendid-looking of all the ducks (Bufflehead males notwithstanding) that I know of.
Extracted still from video.
Here’s two different views of Ruddy Duck, just to show how lighting can change their appearance. In both events these ducks are in non-breeding plumage.
This is a normal .jpg camera snap shot.
This is an extracted still from the video.
I was tickled to find a lone male Cinnamon Teal with a bevy of females tagging along with him. I only have a few images of Cinnamon Teal in my records, the last before this one was back in March of 2022 at Dellinger’s Pond here in Quincy. So here’s the Cinnamon Teal at the wastewater plant pond yesterday:
A side trip to Dellinger’s Pond on the way back home, for a look-see, allowed me to spot this Belted Kingfisher, about 130 yards from where I was standing.
Now it’s your turn. What’s up in your nature world? Changes?
