A handful of photos to serve as a small example of how beautiful Spring can be in Kentucky.

Morning has broken...

Here comes the sun...!

A Redbud tree becomes a scene of floating hearts.

A group of goslings appears to be all business this morning.

Bluebirds always seem to find these tall, vertical perches to alight on, in order to see farther than others.

This frog was much smaller than it appears here, but he seemed content to hang out in the muck.

I felt sorry for this squirrel having to deal with all those ticks in its ear!

A typical male house finch looks like he dipped his head in red paint. Good color choice!

I recently spotted a Male Pileated Woodpecker at Bernheim Forest. Just watching this guy repeatedly smashing his beak into the tree gave me a headache. The Pileated Woodpecker is nearly the size of a crow and is the 3rd largest Woodpecker on the planet. 

Seeing him smashing his beak into the wood with such ferocity made me wonder how they avoid brain damage. It turns out that 99.7% of the energy is dissipated through its body and neck, but the remaining 0.3% is dissipated through the heating of its skull. This is why they pause, as in my video below, when they are doing some serious excavating. They need to allow their head to cool off. Is this why people say, "cooler heads will prevail"?

They are extremely remarkable birds.