November 4, 2008
Athens in the fall
... beats the English autumn hands down!
I have just got back from a 10-day visit to my future home of Athens, GA, in time to see the Hallowe'en mania...
... and the beautiful fall colours. This is Memorial Park, just a short walk from my house of next year.
As in England, Jays were busy caching nuts for the winter.
I cycled the greenbelt to Sandy Creek Nature Center, which was teeming with Carolina Chickadees and kinglets of both flavours, and more unusually, 2 Pine Siskins. I had good views of this Brown Thrasher on the bike ride out.
This Red-tailed Hawk is a regular fixture on the large antenna close to the house.
Roving flocks of Robins are doing a good job of stripping the berry bushes.
While walking the Birchmore Trail, I was surprised to come across a scolding Winter Wren, and a very urban White-tailed Deer.
These two Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers chased each other around tree trunks before trying to murder each other on the lawn!
The ever vocal Tufted Titmouse.
An inquisitive Eastern Towhee.
