European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris - brings food to a chick nesting in the exhaust pipe of a Mack truck that has been idle for over a year pending litigation of financial responsibility for an unfortunate encounter with a utility pole.

  1001 uses for duct tape, but I hadn't thought of using it to patch jeans.

  Case CX330 excavator arrives from Memphis - the latest addition to my rental fleet of construction machines, next week I expect to get my second Caterpillar bulldozer.

  Canada Geese - Branta canadensis - the younger of two sets of chicks being raised on the mill pond at Lenhartsville.

  Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula - female - not so boldly marked as the male, but I don't have any really good pictures of males yet.

  Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos - male - takes to the wing from the mill pond at Lenhartsville.

 

Canada Geese - Branta canadensis - adults and eight chicks at Kaercher Creek Park.

  Green Heron - Butorides virescens - taking flight.

  Red-Winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus - female - after so many photos of the brightly marked and highly vocal male of the species, a photo of the female Redwing is long overdue.

  Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica - in flight; there are a number of these at the dairy barn.