Matching the sky

Taken south west of the city on June 10th, when we finally had a beautiful sunny day. These Mountain Bluebirds are such gorgeous little birds and need as much human help as possible in order to protect their numbers.

"The bluebirds' color was so remarkable to Henry David Thoreau (American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist) that he felt compelled to describe this species' coloring as "carrying the sky on its back." An insightful description since the bluebird's blue color does, in fact, come from light waves scattered by the structure of their feathers, not from blue pigment in their feathers-a blue suncatcher, so to speak. That's why a bluebird appears gray on an overcast day." From michigantoday.umich.edu/99/Fal99/mt15f99a.html

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Bluebird