Birding and Bird Photography

A few Orioles were hanging around tonight before the sun went down. And the baby Canadian Geese are still cool because they haven’t started pooping all over everything yet like they will when they grow up.

 

Thought I’d share, but didn’t have any camera handy…..
Got shadow bombed by a first or second year old Golden Eagle today!! Big shadow, look up and oh my, can’t seem to wipe the smile off my face for while now. Unmistakable white marks on the underwings and white band on tail.
Sawtooth Range Idaho

 

They're one of my favorite species. Found this nest the other day. Bird flew off before I got a photo of it.

 

Glad ya did! Reminded me of the only one I've been sure of, due to the white spots on the wings and band but it was in a swampy slough in southeast Texas. If it were not a juvenile I might have confused it with a vulture as I only got glimpses through the canopy. Something made me look closer though. I think it was being harangued by the resident bald eagles and it seemed unintimidated!

Sometimes the best pictures only exist hangin' on the walls in the museum between our ears.

 

Mallard chillin’ with a squirrel beneath the bird feeder in my front yard.

 

I’m right with ya! My fav!!
Would that pic be from Bizzerkly hills?
(looks familiar, lol)

 

Nopw, private preserve in an adjacent county.

 

I hadn’t seen both geese with their babies for a little bit so I went and walked around. Found some scattered feathers from both wings and the tail which told the story and then found the murder scene a little ways away in the brush. Still five goslings though.

 

There’s not as many herons around. Used to be 7-10 always in the water, just these two today.

 

Resplendent quetzal (phone shot) just outside of Monteverde Costa Rica.

 

A pair of angry birds, a gosling doing yoga and an owl just hanging out trying to take a nap.

 

I wonder what species built that nest. It is a pretty good size.

 

Probably a red tailed hawk or a raven, they’re broth pretty common around here.

 

From today. A Western Kingbird, a Rock Wren and baby that I'm pretty sure would've been eaten by a big ol' coachwhip snake that I scared off the rocks as I walked up and a Killdeer playing the kickin' chicken to distract me from where ever it hid the babies.

 

western bluebirds