Tropical birds are leaving for the year: Large birds remain

Our birds are leaving us.  The summer tropicals have left for the south, for warmer climes.

They are missed.

No longer do we have to get up at 4:30 in the morning to close our windows so that we aren't kept awake by their singing.  No longer do we re-open them at 6:00 in the morning so we can listen to them while we drink our morning coffee.

No longer do we need to fill bird feeders every day.  No longer are we living in our own aviary.

But they will be back next year.  And we can't wait.

What we have seen in our woods in the past two days are several of our large birds, including an Osprey, a Great Horned Owl, and two Pileated Woodpeckers.  Such wonderful wildlife on our Whidbey Island paradise.