Sightings on an early Spring afternoon

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday watching the birds and enjoying the new buds on the trees and shrubs in my parents' yard.  It was a beautiful sunny day with an incredible blue sky.

"And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven."  Lord Byron

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