"Just" a little House Sparrow
Partially Leucistic Red-breasted Nuthatch
Trust
I'm blurry, but I'm cute
Leucistic Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
"Just" a little House Sparrow
The favourite
Water colour version
Tree Swallow iridescence
You can always count on a Chickadee
A friendly visitor
Common Redpolls
Snow Bunting / Plectrophenax nivalis
Four more months to wait
A snack for his babies
On a frosty morning
Tree Swallow from the archives
Tree Swallow in nest cavity
Camouflaged House Sparrow at cavity
Black-capped Chickadee on Judy's hand
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow / Melospiza melodia
A tree full of Tree Swallows
One of a crowd
Gathering of the masses
A Tree Swallow's iridescence
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
A prairie song
Matching colours
Puffed up Tree Swallow
02 Tree Swallow trio
American Goldfinch male
American Robin male
Tree Swallow female
Collecting food for his babies
Female Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
American Robin in the countryside
Everyday beauty
Such an elegant bird
Beautiful wings of a female Mountain Bluebird
Collecting food for her babies
Nest-building Dad
A bright splash of blue in August
Bluebird memories
Trusting Red-breasted Nuthatch
A birder's first time
A visit to George's hand
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
Joy for a deep-freeze day
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
Female Mountain Bluebird with lunch for her babies
American Robin / Turdus migratorius, Carburn Park
American Robin's egg on the ground
American Robin down by the river
American Robin male
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Eastern Phoebe with fishing line
Western Meadowlark
American Robin with food for his babies
Western Meadowlark
Blue-gray Tanager / Thraupis episcopus, Asa Wright…
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch female with Sunflower seed
A lovely splash of colour
Well, hello, little Chickadee
Cemetery wildlife
American Goldfinch
Tree Swallow on road sign
Horned Lark in April snow
Black-capped Chickadee at a cavity
Vibrant colour of spring
Tree Swallow
You can always count on the Chickadees
Horned Lark
Partial Leucistic Red-breasted Nuthatch
Thank you all so much!
White-breasted Nuthatch
Love the sparkle of those tiny diamonds
You can always count on a Black-capped Chickadee
Tree Swallow in April
Splish, splash, I was taking a bath
Me and my shadow
A touch of iridescence
Some like wood, others like metal
Blue-green iridescence
Wind-ruffled feathers
A welcome sight
An element of trust
There's always a Chickadee
Pretty little lady
You can always count on a Chickadee
Thank heavens for Chickadees
American Goldfinch
The cutest little House Sparrow
Horizontal and vertical
Out on a limb
Who can resist a Robin?
Look closely : )
One horny guy
Redpoll cafeteria
Upside down
A warm place to land
In a farmer's field
Common Redpoll
A bird in the hand is worth ...
Happy Thanksgiving - be thankful for the little th…
A genuine American Robin in America
A bird for a change
Townsend's Solitaire
Wilson's Warbler
Welcome colour on a grey day
Gleaming iridescence
Fluffed
Her very first experience
Memories of spring
When fields blossomed
American Robin
Black-capped Chickadee / Poecile atricapillus
Red-breasted Nuthatch
A lucky shot
Mountain Chickadee
Little cutie
Winter colours
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Bluebird of happiness
Sometimes, a quick, close shot ends up missing a bit of the tail of a bird, but I still like the photo : ) The evening of 10 June 2015, was only what I would call a "magical"! Normally, I tend not to go out in the evening - usually just too tired and there are all sorts of things needing to be done on my computer. However, having driven SW of the city the previous day and noticing a baby Mountain Bluebird poking its head out of its nesting box, I knew that any time now, it and its siblings would be suddenly gone. I have been back more recently and found a Tree Swallow looking out from the Bluebirds' nesting box.
It was early evening when I left home on 10 June, after a volunteer shift and a haircut. Really, I was just going to check on the Bluebirds and was not expecting to see all that much else. That's how the evening started, but as the evening progressed, the world seemed to come alive with bird song and activity. It has been a long, long time since I've experienced that, if ever.
Though my trip was mainly just to check on the Bluebirds, I was also lucky to see an American Robin sitting on a barbed-wire fence just a couple of feet away from a brilliant blue male Bluebird. Talk about colour! They were way down the road, so I was only able to get a very distant shot. Also saw a number of Snipe that I love to photograph.
When I reached the point where I was going to turn around and head for home, I saw yet another Snipe perched on a fence. Just a few feet from it, on the same fence rail, was a beautiful Swainson's Hawk! After posing for a while, both birds took off, with the Hawk in hot pursuit of the Snipe. I couldn't see how the chase ended, but hopefully the Snipe escaped.
Closer to home, I suddenly spotted a beautiful female Moose at a small wetland, right before I turned on to the main highway. Not sure if it's because I took my first photos of her from inside the car, across the passenger seat, but most were blurry. Eventually, she left and started walking along the road away from the highway. I crawled along, watching her way in the distance. She kept walking from side to side of the road and then stopped to lick some salt off the road, bending her front legs to kneel in what looked a very awkward move : )
Driving back to the highway, I stopped to watch three or four young White-tailed Deer having fun at the wetland. One of them would occasionally stamp one of its front legs in the water and then bound away a few feet. Funny to watch and so good to see it playing so happily.
So, it was quite the evening, to say the least! I drove all the way home with a big smile on my face.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
It was early evening when I left home on 10 June, after a volunteer shift and a haircut. Really, I was just going to check on the Bluebirds and was not expecting to see all that much else. That's how the evening started, but as the evening progressed, the world seemed to come alive with bird song and activity. It has been a long, long time since I've experienced that, if ever.
Though my trip was mainly just to check on the Bluebirds, I was also lucky to see an American Robin sitting on a barbed-wire fence just a couple of feet away from a brilliant blue male Bluebird. Talk about colour! They were way down the road, so I was only able to get a very distant shot. Also saw a number of Snipe that I love to photograph.
When I reached the point where I was going to turn around and head for home, I saw yet another Snipe perched on a fence. Just a few feet from it, on the same fence rail, was a beautiful Swainson's Hawk! After posing for a while, both birds took off, with the Hawk in hot pursuit of the Snipe. I couldn't see how the chase ended, but hopefully the Snipe escaped.
Closer to home, I suddenly spotted a beautiful female Moose at a small wetland, right before I turned on to the main highway. Not sure if it's because I took my first photos of her from inside the car, across the passenger seat, but most were blurry. Eventually, she left and started walking along the road away from the highway. I crawled along, watching her way in the distance. She kept walking from side to side of the road and then stopped to lick some salt off the road, bending her front legs to kneel in what looked a very awkward move : )
Driving back to the highway, I stopped to watch three or four young White-tailed Deer having fun at the wetland. One of them would occasionally stamp one of its front legs in the water and then bound away a few feet. Funny to watch and so good to see it playing so happily.
So, it was quite the evening, to say the least! I drove all the way home with a big smile on my face.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
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