February is half over?

My week has seemed slow but I've been busy every single day...The weather has been pretty good also....Spring has arrived here for sure.  

The grass has not greened up yet, and there is plenty of yard clean up left to do but.....it's not going anywhere my winter crops are growing...I hope to harvest some broccoli soon..

On Monday  I went to  Lake Paul Wallace, about an hrs drive away to see some ducks...

Some distant Bufflehead...

all in a line

On that particular day there was a cold wind in play and it made things a little uncomfortable for me and the ducks, most were off by the distant shores avoiding the open water to stay out of the wind.  A few sailed close by on their way to someplace else..

American Coot  

This Pied Billed Grebe is all puffed up to stay warm...

This Ruddy Duck (f) looks rather drab in winter colors, 

A Ring Billed Gull came out of the water to warm up in the sun...

There was lots of other ducks I got no good shots of but I sure enjoyed seeing them go about their life..

One day I ran into about 10,000 black birds..So fun to watch...




And a quick stop at the vernal pool I stake out sometimes, I found a Merlin, a small Raptor..(far away this is cropped heavy) so the vernal pool racked up another species...45 up to now.

 

FAR away...

And a  zoom...

The Red Bellied Woodpecker...was at the cemetery.

And a look at a Savannah Sparrow from the back...he was at the area I used to call the Beaverdam...since they killed the beaver most of the pond drained and now it's only a polluted mess SO SAD...

SAD!

A Blue Jay came out in the open,..

This little Pine Warbler was flipping hickory nut shells over to see what he could find to eat. 

On the Plastic front...

I am trying very hard to reduce the plastic packaging I bring into my life...IT has not been easy.  Even when you buy something in a cardboard box, many times it has a Plastic inner package!  What happened to just good old wax paper?  And some products you can NOT find an alternative.  I bought powdered laundry detergent in a cardboard box.  When I opened it up there was a Plastic Scoop inside!!!

I got so angry about that...BUT I have cut my plastic bring home in half!! NOW just to work on the other half.  I found in come cases if I buy a larger quantity I can at least cut down on how many containers I bring home but in this one case, like Bird Seed, for instance. I thought I will just buy the bigger size, but bigger size means bigger bag so I didn't really make the right choice.  Im going to start emailing the companies.  I mean they are responsible for the Complete product they put out...Why should their packaging become MY PROBLEM? 

PEACE

Every day is a new Adventure.