The Merry Month of May: Sunning, Courting and Bright Bright Blooming
It is the merry merry month of May. And May, with all its “goings on” may have been Shakespeare’s favourite month. We here in the Kootenays could forgiven for believing we have stumbled upon the magical forest of Arcadia. Spring has given us a green, green world filled with brilliant colour and courting creatures. Nest-building, courting, sunning in the gorgeous spring sun and blooming abound. One expects the blooming of flowers, but the male hummingbirds also “bloom” in their full courtship brilliance.
Ah spring. “When birds do sing, hey ring a ding ding, Sweet lovers love the spring.”
A Nesting Cassin’s Vireo
Few-Flowered Shooting Stars
Heart-leaved Arnica – brilliant spring yellow
Hooker’s Fairybells – a more subtle beauty
A sunning Painted Turtle
A “blooming” Rufous Hummingbird
A Rufous Hummingbird in full courship brilliance
A Calliope Male (paint effect on photo) – flaring his courting feathers
A Compton’s Tortoiseshell enjoying the sun
all photos and writing copyright J.A. Siderius 2014
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