Chick-a-dee-dee-dee!

Started this morning by spotting the first fawn of the season.  Tiny with wobbly legs crossing the road behind its mom.  Then the chickadees and a pine squirrel were friendly and let me get within minimum focal distance off my 300mm lens.  A female ruby-throated hummingbird visited but didn't like how close I was.  Several blue jays hopped in the trees above, making an interesting variety of calls.  An unknown flycatcher sang me a song.  Later on the drive to work, I spotted an osprey building a nest.

Black-capped Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Pine Squirrel nervous about how close I am.

Osprey building a nest despite a nesting deterrent wire.

Another Osprey nest

I located a second pair of osprey preparing their nest!  I had some time to kill and was on my way to watch the osprey pair I posted about earlier.  Always watching the skies, I notice what appeared to be a raptor high up.  So I pulled over and started taking some pics from a quite a distance and ID'd the bird as an osprey.  I could here the osprey calling but it sounded too close.  Way too close.  So I looked up and directly overhead was the second osprey of the pair.  They then returned to their nearby nest and presented some nice photographic opportunities for me.

A pair prepares

A pair of Osprey working on renovating a nest.  I have been watching this empty nest as I thought it belonged to some bald eagles.  I will me more than content with the osprey and hope I can return and continue to get some pics.