Warbler Rescue Operation

A thud on the living room window interrupted my lunch yesterday. A little yellow bird was twitching on the front deck, lying in a puddle in near-freezing weather. It looked stunned, but was still breathing, so I picked it up and put it on some straw in a bucket and kept it in the warm garage until this morning. He flew off into the bushes this morning, despite my concerns that the blow to the head might have caused blindness.

Little yellow bird, seems to look most like a orange crowned warbler:

Resident-lawnmower-man thought my concerns were ridiculous, and added sarcastically "Yeah, and maybe it has epilepsy too." "Or blind AND epileptic." Not that he didn't care for the bird. He was the one who suggested that I need to give it a water bowl in addition to the bird seed. His family has rehabilitated several birds on their farm and RLM himself was a childhood chicken-raising entrepreneur who used the profits to buy a cow! I recall my urban child self being more interested in clothes at the mall...

A Bird, a Rose, and a Lily

While I was watering the garden, I heard some cheeping in the lilac bush and saw two baby birds. They still had a little bit of downy fluff attached to them and didn't look entirely ready to fly away. I ran to get the camera and when I returned, there was only one baby bird. Maybe the other one returned to a nest deep in the lilac bush or maybe it flew away. I'd never heard or seen birds in this shrub before today!

Baby bird in the lilac bush

Parkland Series Hardy Rose: "Morden Blush" and "Cote d' Azur" Asiatic Lilies.

I believe this is Asiatic Lily "America". I get confused between this one and the LA Hybrid Lily "Fangio", which is quite similar in color. I did some google searching though, and found that Fangio is more pink than dark red like this one!