Welcome - my first blog!

I'm new to blogging and must admit that I wonder if this blog will be read by anyone and if it will actually become -- and this is what I hope -- a fun way to connect with people who enjoy birds as much as I do. I can tell I'm in trouble with this blog already. I've written the first sentence and it's too lengthy... a real run-on sentence! Okay, maybe improving my writing skills will be an unexpected result from this blog-adventure!

As I sit at my computer, in my home office in north Oklahoma City, the sparrows, cardinals and blue jays are busy feeding outside my window. In the backyard, the doves (white-winged, eurasian collared and mourning) have been busy all day chowing down on seed. And I was pleasantly surprised to see a wren in the yard! They aren't that unusual in my area, I just haven't had many in the yard since this winter when one came through the cat door and was injured flying around the house and I didn't rescue it in time.

Today is a beautiful day - 90-degrees and very clear sky. A cold front came through yesterday and I took off for the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge to chase birds and celebrate a mid-July day with a high temperature of 82-degrees! Photographed Black-capped Vireos (more on my photos in later postings), Summer Tanager, and got a nice pic of a Black-and-white Warbler! Great day and great to play hooky from work :-)

This is my world as I see it from my backyard on Thursday, July 28. And welcome!

Pat