Many think that our current first of May doesn’t line up with when May Day was celebrated long ago so any day this week is close enough. Terence Meaden, he of the interesting Stonehenge theories, likes to say that our 6th of May would be the true May Day. But then he has the same bias as me: it’s both our birthdays.

At any rate there’s nothing wrong with celebrating all week!

Hal An Tow, which I posted earlier, is the right song for the first week of May but in keeping with the spirit of it, let me bring you Songs from the Wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UYX2qpUK0
“Let me bring you love from the field:
Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain
To heal the wound and still the pain
That threatens again and again
As you drag down every lover's lane
Life's long celebration's here,
I'll toast you all in penny cheer!”

A link to see pictures of the most beautiful cherry tree in the park. It finished blooming a few days ago but it was too good not to share. https://www.tumblr.com/geopsych/782466479683665920/this-japanese-cherrysakura-tree-is-actually

My anonymous blog on Tumblr reached 120,000 followers. Kind of a pipeline between nature in the places I go and the Tumblr community.

Started it because foraging for beauty distracted me from my depression.

@kyle I thought you were AI??

This is absolutely my kind of fun and if there were something like this for the first week of May in my town I might feel more at home here. What fun to dress up in leaves and flowers! #May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rftBZKbZRg

@brennen As one person there said, he *is* a man of the cloth.

Meanwhile over on Tumblr I'm seeing strong support for Kermit the frog for pope.

She just flew in from the Yucatan—and boy are her arms tired! 😅 Welcome back, Ms hummingbird! #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #hummingbird #pennsylvania

Common grackle checking out what appears to be a blue jay feather in the stream. Grackles seem to spend a lot of time in and at the edges of streams.
#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #grackles

Guardian of the wildflowers. Saw this cute chipmunk this morning in an area covered with thousands of native wildflowers.

Loads of hickory trees and other nut and seed bearers, bird song all the time and a lake view. This creature chose well.
#mammal #creatures #chipmunk #nature

@jeridansky His office now. Nice of him to let you in.

First hummingbird of the year at the feeder! Yay!

@jeridansky Every spring I look at our cardinals and think how red they are, then these guys show up and out-glow them by a mile.

@baconandcoconut More fitting to the tropics where they winter than to here!

While I was in the woods today photographing a wood thrush and a scarlet tanager and wildflowers, listening to bird song, my next door neighbor called me and told me to look outside there was a #fox out back.

I would love to have seen it but you can't be everywhere at once. (Thought: will this reduce the squirrel population? Also, note to self: be doubly sure not to let the cat slip out!)

Scarlet tanager friend in the woods this morning. My favorite neotropical migrant. This fellow leaves no doubt that spring migration is in full swing in eastern PA. Also heard oriole, great crested flycatcher, wood thrush, veery, ovenbird and the Merlin app heard more.

It's go time!

#bird #birds #nature #BirdsOfMastodon #ScarletTanager #SpringMigration #Pennsylvania

@EricMartin Now it would be about Reddit.

Here’s an added picture of Bridget defending her favorite spot against anyone who might want to, you know, sit in their own chair. #CatsOfMastodon #cats #catstodon #cat

I missed #Caturday so here's Bridget a day late in her favorite chair, caught mid-wash. #cat #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon