Neighborhood Wanderings...

We don't have to go to the tree peony gardens anymore as our neighbor has planted several gorgeous specimens in his wonderful gardens in back!!  These were a deep cranberry color.

This was one of many bright rose colored ones.

Here is a closeup of one of the single white ones -- really pretty!

I have been seeing this bird quite frequently in the front yard and believe it is an Eastern Phoebe although I don't see the tail flicking behavior so I may have guessed wrong.  It sits either on a large stalk, in the cherry tree or on this lawn ornament of my neighbor's.

I always have my camera next to me while I read outside on a nice day (okay, almost always and inevitably when I don't have it I see a hummingbird closeup or a Baltimore Oriole!!). 

 This is a Brown-headed Cowbird.  I had seen a juvenile earlier this year.

A Mourning Dove landed on the roof next door.

Way off in the distance in the sky I spotted this hawk.  I lightened him up with software and I am pretty sure he is a Red-tailed Hawk!!  We see a lot of both Red-shouldered and Red-tailed.  I have seen him before but this is the first time I have managed a snapshot.