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| Back To Photography Page | Rural Landscapes | Bald Eagles | Other Wildlife | Spring 2007 |
| May 1, 2007 | ||
| An occasional sight at Brownville, Nebraska |
Missouri River Barge |
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| The County Courthouse in Tecumseh, Nebraska is an especially good subject to photograph. |
Johnson County Courthouse |
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| The annual Arbor Day Parade was a big attraction in Nebraska City last weekend. Here is the "Pioneers" High School Marching Band. |
Nebraska City High School Marching Band |
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| Syracuse, Nebraska entered their Germanfest Royalty in the parade. |
Germanfest Float |
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| Pretty girls and horses are frequent entries in a parade, and here we have both; Miss Sidney Iowa Rodeo riding horseback. |
Miss Sidney Iowa Rodeo |
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| She brought a pretty smile, too. |
A wave with a pretty smile |
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| Near the birdfeeder in my yard this House Finch sings and prances his stuff for a not-so-impressed girlfriend. |
This gal is not smiling |
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| This makes me wonder how little finches ever get made! |
Talk about playing hard to get! |
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| The Blue Jays occasionally visit my yard to pick up some spilled seed. |
Blue Jay with black oil sunflower seed |
Buy Black Oil Sunflower Seed at
Brownville Mills. Tell Harold that Your Country Neighbor referred you! |
| The Blue Jay, Titmouse, Nuthatch and woodpeckers all take the seed up to a branch for 'opening'. The Cardinals and Finches eat at the feeder. |
 Holding a seed with its 'toes' and opening the shell with its beak |
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| Water should be available for your birds. A dripping arrangement is a good way to attract birds. I don't know if it's the sound or the sight of the dripping water, but birds find it. So does the squirrel. |
 Drinking from a crude birdbath |
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| Grackles and Starlings are nuisance birds, but they have to eat too, and their blue/green/indigo sheen is a handsome touch from Mother Nature. |
 Grackle scavenging for sunflower seed
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| Most of the time this guy is on the other side of the branch. I occasionally get his picture, but not too often. |
 Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| I just missed a sweet picture of Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal "kissing" yesterday. They seem especially shy this year. I'll keep trying |
 Cardinal keeping its distance |
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