Bachelor goldfinch

Things with wings

Things with wings mostly fly, but not everything. So there are some stone angels, and as well caterpillars and their eggs (which only notionally have wings). I've left out some stages, with people performing, though I know stages have wings, too. And some extended buildings. You know: it could get kind of meaningless, hey?
Jump

Jump

17 Nov 2016 79
It was wet underfoot.
Greedy-Guts

Greedy-Guts

16 Nov 2016 82
A few moments later, the crow on the left had four peanuts in his mouth, and he took off to eat them in privacy, away from the paparazzo.
A hundredth of a second in a lucky blue jay's life

A hundredth of a second in a lucky blue jay's life

14 Nov 2016 1 70
The blue jay had loaded up -- with a peanut in his craw and another in his prow -- and, when I was ready to take his picture, he left.
Blue jay

Blue jay

10 Nov 2016 83
I'll get tired of these armchair birding shots soon enough. But, in the meantime, here is another picture taken through my back door window. Each day, I put unshelled peanuts out and, within a few minutes, the blue jays and crows come for their treats. Our cat and the next-door neighbours' dogs pay rapt attention but the birds know how safe they are.
Pacing

Pacing

10 Nov 2016 60
The crows have been getting friendlier since I've been feeding them peanuts. This one was pacing around, wondering whether he should jump down even closer to the door to get his peanuts. He did eventually; nothing seems to put a crow off for very long.
Two crows

Two crows

08 Nov 2016 3 73
Two crows outside my window, horsing around with each other.
Easy Nutting

Easy Nutting

06 Nov 2016 74
Two jays this morning. The fellow on the left was much more adept at turning the nuts to get one down in his crop and a second in his beak than the other fellow was.
Back for peanuts

Back for peanuts

05 Nov 2016 72
Having learnt the bluejays are not using up the supply of peanuts, the crows have been hanging out, waiting.
Hanging out in our yard

Hanging out in our yard

29 Oct 2016 71
One of the neighbourhood crows, checking out the morning scene in our backyard a few minutes ago. This Tokina 300mm reflex lens gets close, and is very light-weight, but it is soft.
Snowbird eating

Snowbird eating

01 Oct 2016 40
When my neighbours left a month ago they asked if I wanted a birdbath. I said "Sure." But, because of an outbreak of some bird diseases here, I left it dry. This morning, I put some bird seed in it and immediately attracted a couple of snowbirds.
Flicker getting out of sight

Flicker getting out of sight

28 Sep 2016 46
The flicker was checking the peanuts I had out for the bluejays. When he saw me, he moved away. I never got a picture of him standing still.
The peanuts were all gone. He just wanted me to know. Tags 16914

The peanuts were all gone. He just wanted me to kn…

26 Sep 2016 43
I've been feeding this guy and his friends peanuts the past couple of days. While I worked this morning, he cleared away this morning's entire lot and then hung around reminding me to refill it.
Crow lifting off

Crow lifting off

14 Aug 2016 52
Crow doing what crows do well.
Happy fly

Happy fly

26 Jul 2016 42
I was on the back step listening to the radio and this fellow dropped by to join me for a few minutes. He listened to the radio too and I thought he was rubbing together with some glee his what-pass-for-hands. Perhaps I was mistaken. . I must learn how to do focus-stacking with this camera.
Pine grosbeak gobbling up pisstabed seeds.

Pine grosbeak gobbling up pisstabed seeds.

27 Jun 2016 58
Pine grosbeak between feeds of pisstabed seeds in Ganny Cove yesterday. She was jumping on the stalks of the, okay, dandelion flowers, bringing them to the ground, and then, holding the flower stalk down, picking at the seeds. You can see the remains of a lot of seeds on the ground, bottom left. Her male buddy was around but he wasn't as interested in the dandelions. He was bright orange.
I used to think all our native birds were grey or brown.

I used to think all our native birds were grey or…

27 Jun 2016 2 41
When I was a kid, I thought colourful birds were all in other places, that all our birds were a kind of duckedimud colour. Nowaday I see colourful birds all the time. Nothing has changed except my sight. ("None so blind...," hey?) We spent the weekend out of town and noticed lots of high-saturation birds, including this yellow warbler in the apple tree. This is about a thirtieth of the entire frame.
Young starling

Young starling

21 Jun 2016 2 49
Fledgling starling
Fledgling starling startled into flight

Fledgling starling startled into flight

21 Jun 2016 33
I was going through a nearby, newly mown graveyard and saw a bunch of starlings feeding in the cuttings with their fledglings. This one was particularly pretty until finally I startled him and he flew. This is substantially cropt . . . and, yes, I did desaturate the bright green background. But his eye really did show blue (sky reflection?).
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