Bruce Dean (Puchinpappy)'s photos

A scene from Kootenay National Park. British Columbia, Canada.

A recent sunset observed from my backyard.

This Bald Eagle was soaring over the beach at a lake in Champion Lakes Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.

What looks like a volcano plume is just a passing cloud in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.

This is a new bird for me. This bird has a beautiful song and is not shy to share it. It is the first time the bird came out of the leaves so I could get a good look at it.

Here is the same young finch I just posted. Taken through a window that the birds love to mess up while eating. Notice its baby feathers still stuck on its head.

This fledgling House Finch, notice the baby feathers on its head and breast, has been flying around this feeder for a couple of days now trying his best to land properly. It gets confused by the window but is slowly figuring it out. Its father was showing him where the free meals are. We put the feeder on the window, as well as other deterrents, to keep the birds, especially the young ones, from smashing into it. We get to enjoy them close up and they don't get injured. Win-win.

These birds live at the pond near our home but that does not stop them from making several sorties daily to our feeders.

This Red-necked Grebe has folded itself up for a nap in the evening.

This male House Finch is not hiding very well dressed in red.

Female Red-winged Blackbird alighting in my backyard.

This Hairy Woodpecker is getting a greasy beak at the suet feeder in our backyard.

The flakes of snow were huge just before I recorded this Spring snowfall in our backyard.

Saturday Self-challenge: A construction site. There has been extensive work at a sinkhole for a long time at a major intersection in my city.

Saturday Self-challenge: House plant. This geranium is indoors looking out the window and longing to be outdoors. It is too early to put it out yet, we have to wait another couple of weeks until the danger of frost is gone.

The Goldeneye pair on Pigeon Lake, Alberta, Canada. The ice on the lake is holding on but will be gone soon.