I’m not sure exactly why, but yesterday was a huge eating festival for the birds. Early in the day, it was all the little birds. Chickadees, Tufted Titmouses, Nuthatches, Downy Woodpeckers, Cardinals, Carolina Wrens, and European Sparrows. One bird would… Read More ›
Present and Past Connections Usually this would be my biggest month of picture taking, but it’s still raining. Okay, it stopped for a few hours this morning. That gave me a chance to get to the deck and clean up… Read More ›
The Changing Seasons: September 2021 It hasn’t (until today) been a magical month for photography. Of course there are a few birds and some awfully cute squirrels. And lets not forget the chrysanthemums and the other flowerbox blossoms. Mostly what we… Read More ›
It was maybe a month ago. Garry and I were watching Colbert and his guest was a big star — whose name I’ve forgotten. I’m not good at remembering names so that’s not unusual, but I remember the conversation. “What,”… Read More ›
This is not about IQ. It’s about color . Mostly about red, but also some green and orange — and a handsome black mast. Cardinals often look like the original Angry Birds. They are the right color (Red!) and they… Read More ›
We have had a lot of Cardinals lately. Many of them are young birds. You can tell because they still have some fledgling feathers and they look like teenage Cardinals. The boy in the set looks nearly full-grown, but the… Read More ›
Cardinals are my hardest to photograph birds. They sit out there on a feeder until I pick up the camera and then, he vanishes. He doesn’t even fly away, at least not that I can see. He seems to just… Read More ›
Worcester county, where we live, is thinly populated and rather rural. Small town, not much in the way of big public gatherings now or ever. Yet our COVID population shot up from almost zero to 258% of the previous number… Read More ›
It had been a cool night, so the air conditioning was off and the windows were open. It was around 9:30 in the morning when I realized that there was a lot of noise coming in through the windows. I… Read More ›
I’d imagined this moment so many times, but I never expected that a bird so small would steal the seed right out of my mouth! That’s right. Here I am, a full-size scarlet Cardinal and he’s a tiny Chipping Sparrow…. Read More ›
A PHOTO A WEEK: FROM THE SIDE Sideways birds in three amazing colors! I love when all the different color birds show up by the feeders together. What a joyful collection they make.
I put these in a challenge, but there are none at the moment where these seem to belong, so I’ll just have to post them. Taken on different days, these are really cute pictures \of a red squirrel plus a… Read More ›
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