Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre…
Balancing act
Common Raven in the sun
Don Stiles' Bluebird & Tree Swallow route
Blue-gray Tanager, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trini…
Finally!
Common Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
A lucky find
A country scene
Marbled Godwit / Limosa fedoa
Red-winged Blackbird
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird female
Ruby-throated Hummingbird female
American Robin with food for his babies
Here comes dessert!
Red-winged Blackbird juvenile
Common Nighthawk
Stellar's Jay juvenile
Purple Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Evening Grosbeak
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Anyone have a comb?
Who can resist a Burrowing Owl?
I fell in love ....
Time for a nap
Curious
Cooling down
Flight training with a Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Oropendola, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trin…
Jackie's Hummingbird
Talk about baby fluff!
Barn Owl
Spiked hairdo
Short-eared Owl
Sleepy Short-eared Owl
Handsome Wood Ducks
Blue-gray Tanager / Thraupis episcopus, Asa Wright…
You looking at me, lady?
Semipalmated Plover / Charadrius semipalmatus?
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Canada Warbler / Cardellina canadensis
Yellowlegs
Killdeer / Charadrius vociferus
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Green-winged Teal and Black-bellied Plover
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Wood Ducks
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
Wood Duck juvenile
Palm Tanager, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Juvenile American Coot
Swainson's Hawk
American Goldfinch
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
Purple Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright
Sweet young owl
Three years later ....
Pretty little Hummer, Asa Wright, Trinidad - immat…
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brewer's Blackbird male
Brewer's Blackbird female
Tree Swallow female
Great Horned Owl male
Brewer's Blackbird, collecting food for his babies
One of three young owls
Killdeer / Charadrius vociferus
Killdeer 'nest' and eggs - a telemacro shot
Tree Swallows - time to change places
Watching the watchers
American Coot and 'cootlings'
Who are we?
Brown Thrasher / Toxostoma rufum - a 'lifer'
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird with food for her babies
Brown-headed Cowbird male
Collecting food for his babies
The innocents
White-crowned Sparrow / Zonotrichia leucophrys
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Crested Oropendola, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trin…
Oilbird / Steatornis caripensis, Dunston Cave, Asa…
Yellow Oriole, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
The wonderful, tiny Tufted Coquette, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal / Paroaria nigrogenis, Trinidad
American Coot
Showing off all his "bling"
A slight touch of blue
Eared Grebe
Yesterday's treat!
Sweet little Mountain Bluebird
Mom and her babies
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Great Horned Owl and owlet
Sharp-tailed Grouse
American Robin male
Evening Grosbeak male
Hairy Woodpecker / Picoides villosus
American Goldfinch male / Spinus tristis
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American Robin down by the river
American Robin's egg on the ground
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Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin immature, Trinidad
Hummingbird wings
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Wilson's Snipe
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
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A touch of blue
We have an overcast, windy day here today, 22 June 2017. The temperature is only 9C (windchill 5C). Yesterday, I had wondered whether to finally go for a drive and take a few garden flower photos today, but I've changed my mind.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
In the afternoon of 12 June 2017, on the spur of the moment, I went for a short drive SW of the city. The sun was shining, but unfortunately it was windy most of the time. My main purpose was to check on a few of the Mountain Bluebirds, who are now busy as can be, collecting insects to feed to their hungry babies. I know this will soon be over and the young ones will have fledged, so I really must make myself visit them again, or it will be too late.
I had also hoped that maybe one of the Great Gray Owls in the area might just be out hunting. No luck this time. Makes me even more grateful to have seen one during our May Species Count on 28 May 2017.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
In the afternoon of 12 June 2017, on the spur of the moment, I went for a short drive SW of the city. The sun was shining, but unfortunately it was windy most of the time. My main purpose was to check on a few of the Mountain Bluebirds, who are now busy as can be, collecting insects to feed to their hungry babies. I know this will soon be over and the young ones will have fledged, so I really must make myself visit them again, or it will be too late.
I had also hoped that maybe one of the Great Gray Owls in the area might just be out hunting. No luck this time. Makes me even more grateful to have seen one during our May Species Count on 28 May 2017.
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