A coot family in the foreground and a stray pie-billed grebe youngster in the rear, enjoying, or perhaps tolerating, a late spring shower on a local pond.
Tag: ecology
Female Red Winged Blackbird
The Female Red Winged Blackbirds around us seem to stay hidden in the reeds and cattails once the nesting season has begun. Luckily on this day we were treated to the subtle beauty of this female sitting high on a cattail in the pond.
From cattail to cattail
A Common Yellowthroat captured darting about from cattail to cattail adding color to the marsh on an early spring day.
Stellar’s Jay
Hidden in a lichen covered tree this Stellar’s Jay gives me that all to familiar over the shoulder glance saying I am on to you buddy.
Waiting for the rain to end.
Hoping the rain will subside yet still busy observing an open field looking for a morsel on a rainy day. A beautiful hawk waiting for the rain to end in Mendocino, CA.
A Friendly Hermit Thrush
This Hermit Thrush made just a long enough appearance to allow us a quick photo before hopping back into the undergrowth of the forest. A nice treat to see a bird we usually only get to hear. It has such a wonderful song. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Thrush/sounds
Beyond Human Scale
Imagine the world on a different scale.
Would you be an ant walking in the photo above?
A giant walking the earth with mile long footsteps or an atom floating in space?
Beyond Human Scale lies another world waiting to be discovered.
Phalarope’s return
When the snow melts and the grass turns green the Wilsons Phalaropes return to grace the ponds along the roadsides outside of Walden, CO. These small birds are truly a favorite of mine.
Morning Coffee With The Deer
Sharing a cup of morning coffee, steamy and hot from the thermos, with a reluctant mule deer is not such a bad way to start the day. Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Denver, CO.
Western Tanager
A bird we are always excited to see, a Western Tanager enjoying the comming of spring even on a cloudy day. Gardiner, MT.
nature has no boss 
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