Sunday

I'm late and I don't have much to offer for today. The weather has been crazy again with high winds, rain, snow and the only weather we didn't get was the tornado activity, thank goodness.
Coming home from a trip to the lake, I happened to see a field of sheep and this cute donkey.

Back at Lake Erie I found some Red-breasted Mergansers. You can tell it was a windy day..

There were lots of gulls flying around and gave me some practice on my in flight shots.
Have a wonderful up-coming week.

This week

I have to show you all this mammoth Black Walnut tree in Erie County, Pa that is estimated by arborists to be between 270 and 300 years old. It measures 17 feet around. The large limb that stretches out to the left is 60 feet long and measures nearly 9 feet in circumference.

In our yard high up in a Aspen tree is a European starling.

Down on the creek trail I found a spotted sandpiper.

On Monday we went to the beach and discovered someone was running in his bare feet. The sun was shining, but it was quite cool.

The breakers where we were are covered in Gulls.

We also saw the resident Mute swans with their "kids"

This one hasn't got all it's white plumage yet.

Back at home the neighbors have the cutest donkey.

Finally yesterday morning a female Red-bellied woodpecker stopped by. I haven't seen one in 2 years.

I guess that's all for now. The beautiful weather continues. I see they are having snow out in the west, so guess what we'll be getting next!