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winter woodpecker

March 14th, 2010

winter woodpecker

 

A February image that I liked the moment I looked out and saw the bird and one of last year’s leaves clinging to the top branches of an aspen.

Birds, winter

winter birds

December 21st, 2009

 

pygmy nuthatch with seed

The pigmy nuthatch comes close to me to get a seed from the just-filled feeder. The finch waits in the trees until I’ve gone back in the house to take his turn at the seed mixture.

finch on aspen

Birds

mouths to feed

July 2nd, 2009

mouths to feed - western bluebirds

Western bluebird and two hungry mouths to feed. The nest is high in an old aspen. I cropped away more than half the image I was able to capture from a respectful distance with my telephoto zoom extended to 400mm.

Birds

flicker

June 28th, 2009

insect meal

June 27th, 2009

mallard duckings

June 26th, 2009

Summer’s finally here and so are ducklings. My first sighting of the tiny yellow and brown swimmers was on an early morning walk around the lakes at Lower Lake Ranch.

mallard ducklings

Clouds overhead reflect white in the dark water while low morning sunlight traveled up the valley to light this straggler.

straggler_duckling

The reflections changed as I moved around the lake. Light changed, too, cloudy one moment, a bit of bright sun the next.

mallard_ducklings

Birds, Lower Lake Ranch

mark your place

June 9th, 2009

goslingsbkmk

Goose with goslings, one of the images I’m printing for bookmarks this year.

Birds, Lower Lake Ranch