Rondeau Ric

 Didn't see the tail so I can't tell if it's a short or long tailed. A rare visitor to the yard, Rondeau Provincial Par, June 12, 2024, Ontario, Canada. Edited in photoshop. The weasels nose was almost touching the bottom edge of the image. Also there  was an ugly man made piece of  debris. Through  the magic of Photoshops  generative fill the edge was extended and the debris was removed. To me it was an amazing change.

Yellow warbler, Rondeau Provincial Park, May 10, 2019. Forsythia just outside the window of the living room. Setophaga petechia Life can be dangerous for a small bird. Yellow Warblers have occasionally been found caught in the strands of an orb weaver spider’s web. source -  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow_Warbler

Tufted titmouse, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 2019. A regular in the yard, we seem to have at least 5 of them bouncing in and out of the feeders. Baeolophus bicolor Unlike many chickadees, Tufted Titmouse pairs do not gather into larger flocks outside the breeding season. Instead, most remain on the territory as a pair. Frequently one of their young from that year remains with them, and occasionally other juveniles from other places will join them. Rarely a young titmouse remains with its parents into the breeding season and will help them raise the next year's brood. source - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tufted_Titmouse

We noticed a sudden flurry at the niger feeder and looked out to see a cooper's hawk grabbing one of the goldfinches. Everyone has to eat. Taken through the Wonderful Wildlife Window. Accipiter cooperii Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone.

Over the marsh at Rondeau Provincial Park taken from our boat on  Lake Erie. Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds that usually form above 18,000 feet. These clouds are blown by strong westerly winds aloft into streamers known as "mares' tails" Cirrus clouds generally move from west to east across the sky and usually "point" to fair weather. source USA Today.

We have a pair of brown thrashers that come to our yard most days. We think they are nesting close by. Today they showed up together and one wasn't happy when the other tried to join them in the pond. Toxostoma rufum An aggressive defender of its nest, the Brown Thrasher is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood. The oldest Brown Thrasher on record was at least 11 years, 11 months old. It was recaptured and then re-released at a Florida banding station.