mouths to feed
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.
Category Archives: Birds
flicker
insect meal
mallard duckings
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.
Clouds overhead reflect white in the dark water while low morning sunlight traveled up the valley to light this straggler.
The reflections changed as I moved around the lake. Light changed, [...]
mark your place
Goose with goslings, one of the images I’m printing for bookmarks this year.
goslings!
This morning at Lower Lake Ranch I found the Canada goose still sitting on the nest I’ve been watching. Then, I wandered around looking for something else to photograph and found a family of geese with six goslings near the creek. The parents didn’t want me close to the kids but I managed to get a few images [...]
bluebird and flicker
flicker on dead aspen
I went looking for something to photograph with my telephoto lens this morning and found these birds. The photos above are crops of the images. I like the background trees in the full image of the flicker, below.
mallards on ice
This beautiful couple stood on an icy pond just before sunset yesterday evening.
chickadee moon
As if to say, “shoot this!”, the chickadee presented its tail feathers.
Ok. I like shooting the moon.
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I make images of nature, wildlife, old structures, and other things found near my mountain home in Colorado.
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