Spring Birds

 Three bird sightings from yesterday.




The meadowlarks arrived really early this year with the warmer weather.

 Ring-necked pheasants are always hard to capture with the camera - they are very wary.

A huge flock of wild turkeys has been hanging around this area all winter. This big male obviously knows its spring!

Two Hearts

It has been a while since I posted any photos of Heart Mountain so I thought I would make up for it by posting two today!
One of the amazing things about the mountain is that it looks different from every angle. The two shots for today were both taken from the northeast side.

The top photo was snapped yesterday. The sun was behind the clouds behind the mountain which made for some unusual lighting.

By contrast, in the second shot, taken last week, the sun was behind my back and shining on the face of Heart. I took his photo to show the huge piece of a silo that had been blown into a nearby field after a massive wind storm the previous night.