Nothing better in the morning that sitting with you cup of coffee and listening to the chikadees calling back and forth. This good looking bird was picking through the cattails and having a great time.
Tag: bird photography
Clear Cut
This Coot was busy as a bee harvesting all the tender young growth from the tops of these plants on a local pond one afternoon. We watched him swim from plant to plant getting quite the meal.
Mission accomplished!
Finch and Flowers
A happy female house finch. Perhaps picking a bouquet or lunch?
Mergansers
A trio of common mergansers heading off into the early evening sunlight on the snake river in GTNP, WY. Sounds like a great way to start the weekend to me.
Owlets
A pair of great horned owlets. One shy and one not so shy staying close to home in a beautiful old cottonwood tree.
Duck On The Menu
Looks like a nice little feast of Merganser leg for this Bald Eagles dinner judging from the bill barely visible in the grass. Photographed while kayaking on the Snake River in GTNP.
Are you my brother?
All’s well that ends well. Several weeks latter we spotted these newly hatched killdeers, and several others, along the side of the road hiding in the short grass and exploring the world and each other.
Nesting in Precarious Places
Well the Killdeer was in fact hiding something. After the outburst displayed in yesterdays photo, we retreated letting the Killdeer have its peace but on the way out we stumbled into their nest full of eggs being incubated by one of the pair. The nest, just a little pile of pebbles, was located about a foot off the small gravel road we were driving away on. If we could speak Killdeer we would have let this pair know the nest site was not in the best location for dealing with humans in cars like us. We sure hope the eggs developed without incident.
Move Along
While out in the Arapahoe National Wildlife Refuge this spring we ran accross a Killdeer that was quite alarmed at our presence and left no doubt about the fact that it was time for us to move on as there was nothing here to see….or was there?
Magpie Pinhole
Wildlife photography pinhole style.
nature has no boss 
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