Bee Balm (Monarda) Flower

Bee Balm (Monarda ) is annual or perennial plant native to North America. Common names include Bee balm, Horsemint, Bergamot and Oswego tea. Today the plant gives the taste to Earle Grey Tea, but long since was used by Ntive Americans as medical plant for it antiseptic, carminative and general stimuation actions. Also, the Bee Balm flower favorite with hummingbirds.( Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda )

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The Chive

Flowering chives and Coriander buds on green, blurred background.
The chive (Allium schoenoprasum), the smallest species of edible onions, a perennial plant native to Europe, Asia and North America.

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The Crow

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The White-Crowned Sparrow

The Sparrows is a small bird with mostly gray plumages. The White-Crowned Sparrow is also gray but has a brown back and wings. Read more about White-Crowned Sparrow here .





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Wood Duck Ducklings

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The Wood Duck. Female.

"The Wood Duck is considered by many naturalists
and hunters to be the most beautiful duck in North
America, if not the world."
Hinterland Who's Who

So, Wood Duck...
Some sources describe Wood Duck as the most beautiful duck in the world. But even it is my favorite duck I can't be agree it is most beautiful duck in North America either! Here is spectacular Harlequin Duck in North America and amazing Mandarin Duck in Eastern Asia and Russia. Which one is more beautiful -? I don't know!
However wood duck's  female - less colorful than male (it's has a white broad teardrop-shaped eye-ring and a whitish throat. You can't be mistaking when you sea that), but still one of the most gorgeous and more colourful than any other female ducks in North America!

Sounds of Wood Duck here



The Wood Duck and the Mandarin: The Northern Wood Ducks



Stovall 5H Duck Box



The Wood Duck by Bart Jerner Collector Plate



Wood Ducks Wild Wing Serving Tray (19 x 11.5) - MHP-WW-0108



Wood Ducks: A Pictorial Study



Wood Duck Playing Cards



Wood Duck - Sounds.

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Weekend's backyard photgraphs.

...Last weekend...It were couple of suny days, so I spend some time in my backyard. You now, cuting a grass, planting a seeds and another staf like that. By the way I hold my camera with me and there what I got!
                                                                My welcome guest
It is just one of them. A few years ago, when I put first feeder, hardly one humming was coming weekly. Today I can say they are my PERMANENT VISITORS. More then 13-18 appreciate my hospitality daily!

Ruffous Humminbird
Humminbird 407970-1 798ci HD SI Combo Fishfinder and GPS
Humminbird 408100-1 Fishfinder 570 DI
Humminbird 408130-1 788ci HD DI Combo Fishfinder/GPS
Humminbird Fishfinder 560



Humminbird 408100-1 Fishfinder 570 DI

                                                                                My growing.

Well, there is nothing to say. They  are beautiful !



Sacura (cherry)Trees of Japan: Cherry Blossom, Acer Palmatum, Japanese Persimmon, Trema Orientalis, Avicennia Marina, Cryptomeria, Acer Shirasawanum





Cherry blossom



                                                                              My tenant.
That guy living in birdhouse I built for...Red-breasted Nuthatch.Some thing wrong here! May be I made a mistake? I am not frendly whith inches. Or that doesn't care about?  Any way, usualy they are very jumpy, but that time the guy was surprised  by empty feeder, which one I clined up a few minet before, and also was screaming at me!

  Black-caped chickadee

 





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Flowers.

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Rhododendron

 

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