Different point of view

Not much to report on bird activity in my area, this last week; my birding binoculars are not exactly collecting dust, but they are not exactly getting overheated, either. Temperatures have been on the cool side (not really unusual for March, this far north), barely nudging 40. However, with temperatures expected to be in the 70s, in the next few days and that is unusual, so I suspect this is the calm before the storm as far as my birding and birdwatching goes. I can feel it in my bones that nature is about to explode with life in the next couple of weeks. Can't wait to hear the Spring Peepers (frogs) telling us all that spring has arrived.

Regardless of the weather, though, I have been hitting the bike trail, nearly every day, though it is not always easy trying to squeeze that precious time in between my music students and my bands. My biking trips are a combination of a hard workout to get in shape for some long-distance biking I want to do, later this summer and my daily birding trip. I’ve worked it out to where I know the sections of the trail that are best for birding and sections of the trail that have the hills I need for my conditioning. Aerobic biking and bird watching are an odd combination of activities, I know, but it works for me; I return home refreshed in both mind and body. At my age, I take that as a blessing.

About the pic. I always carry at least one of my digital cameras, just in case I see something interesting. Spotted these two Mallards feeding in the water as I biked over a bridge and had to stop. I thought they way they posed said a lot. Mallards have a different point of view.