Silently perched and very well hidden within a backdrop of fresh fresh leaves this Olive Sided Flycatcher spent a morning enjoying the crisp spring air teeming with newly hatched insects. Fresh, a synonym for spring?
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Wilsons Phalarope
We found a nice sized group of these guys feeding in shallows ponds created by the the recent rain and snowmelt in Northern Colorado. What a beautiful bird.
Calm Seas
Taken off the Oregon Coast.
Holga camera and Fuji Film.
Yellow Rumped Warblers
There is no doubt about it, the sound of Yellow Rumped Warblers is a fine way to start a Friday morning.
Usually flittering about in the tree tops we typically hear Warblers them more frequently than we see them. This spring they have given us a few good looks and even time enough to snap a few photos while they were foraging for meals.
Happy Friday and enjoy your weekend.
Just around the corner
Just around the corner a beautiful cinnamon colored black bear glances over to say hello.
grass, sky and wire
Along a quiet road with fresh grass and a subdued sky a bird balances on barbed wire in a place where the wind forever blows.
Western Wyoming
Good Evening
Hello Mr Grosbeak what a big bill you have.
The Evening Grosbeaks have made an extended appearance this spring and we are enjoying seeing them in the trees nearby. Such a large finch (about 6.5-7.0″), that imposing beak and so darn colorful they really stand out compared to the other birds in the Finch family that typically hang out in our forests like the demure (5″) Pine Siskin and slightly larger (6″) Cassins Finch.
Spring Shower
A coot family in the foreground and a stray pie-billed grebe youngster in the rear, enjoying, or perhaps tolerating, a spring shower on a local pond.
Ephemeral
Desert flowers enjoying the morning dew as we start on a hike in the canyon lands of the Colorado Plateau. These flowers seem to last only a day at the most. Knowing this we enjoy their beauty all the more. A life lesson taught flowers.
Yellow
Mostly yellow and just a touch of green on a cloudy spring afternoon.
Yellow bells ringing and although short and sometimes hidden in the grass they make a statement that is always bold.
Arrow-leaf Balsamroot is just now riding into town and when in full abundance paints the fields with that sunny shade of yellow.
Now on the wane yet still holding on the Biscuit root is one of those flowers inside a flower inside a flower. Fascinating to look at from macro to micro and back again.
Have a wonderful weekend.
nature has no boss 
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