Gareth showing the cedar waxwing, and identifying the downy woodpecker behind me (which had been watching me refill the birdfeeder earlier today, not six feet away).
Zooming
Birds
That’s not a deer
The wildlife camera took a thousand pictures over three weeks in June. We were looking for shots of the deer eating the snowball flowers. Only just noticed this one. Red-shouldered hawk? Hawks have often nested in our tall trees and we hear their screaming regularly, but don’t as often see them clearly, or near the ground.
Gareth’s bluebird feeding youngster
We’ve been watching this same thing from our own breakfast/lunch window. Photo by Gareth, saying “I put some dried worms in the window tray this morning and within minutes the Bluebirds were there. This is with the window open and me five feet away.”
Grosbeak
First grosbeak seen at our house in a year or more. And he kept feeding long enough for me to go and get the camera.
Squirrel-proof, you say?
But I’ve been here at least a half-hour!
Turkey vulture
Turkey vulture drying his wings in the sun after a wet night, snapped with cell phone during my Hyperion Saturday morning run through University of Mary Washington.
Lunchtime
Male cardinal, tufted titmouse, getting the bluebirds’ mealworms.
Homing Pigeon
Great Smoky Mountains
Nov 9th-11th at the Swag in western North Carolina, elevation 5,000 feet.
Ospreys
Westmoreland State Park, Virginia: ospreys atop beach pavilion, and cliffs along Potomac River.
