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Category Archives: Birds
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, too, cloudy one moment, a bit of bright sun the next.
mark your place
Goose with goslings, one of the images I’m printing for bookmarks this year.
goslings!
goslings nibbling grass by the lake
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 without troubling them too much as they moved between the creek and lake. There are three pairs of adult Canada geese staying at the ranch ponds this spring. I wonder how many goslings will be there tomorrow.
My field guide for N. American birds says they nest in Alaska and Canada. But then I checked the breeding map and saw an area along the southern and central Rockies in the U.S. marked as a breeding area for them as well. They must like it here as much as I do.
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- cute baby on the creek bank
bluebird and flicker
western bluebird
- 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.
flicker, full image
mallards on ice
male mallard
This beautiful couple stood on an icy pond just before sunset yesterday evening.
female mallard
chickadee moon
mountain chickadee on feeder hook
mountain chickadee moon
As if to say, “shoot this!”, the chickadee presented its tail feathers.
Ok. I like shooting the moon.
mountain chickadee and white breasted nuthatch
On the nut feeder this morning:
And, backlit on the same feeder this evening:
Wind
White Saturday
The dark eyed juncos are eating seeds from my feeders this morning. This one sits on the fence while swallowing a piece of cracked corn.
The woodpecker tried the feeder, too, but saw me watching and flew to an aspen.
black friday
