I actually got nine additional photos of this bird in flight but I thought these fourteen were the best ones. They’re all presented in the order they were taken with no skips.
I’m surprised they haven’t migrated south by now but I’ve seen several of them the last few days in the mountains and on the valley floors
Occasionally a single element in a photo will grab me in a way that I’m willing to overlook something else that would normally put me off a little.
In fact, the solitaire demonstrated his fussiness about food on two separate occasions and in two different ways.
I’ve been looking for kingfishers in many areas for the last few months with no luck getting close enough but yesterday I finally found one that cooperated, if only for a for a few moments.
This male stretched every limb he possibly could simultaneously which I thought resulted in an awkward but endearing pose.
And some very good news about migrating Rough-legged Hawks, especially for local photographers and birders.
These photos of brawling coots are among the very first I ever took with my brand new 500mm lens over eleven years ago, on June 18, 2007.
Nothing major today – just one of those little mini-dramas in the daily life of birds. But it does play out in a pretty setting
Canvasbacks are supposed to be our “aristocrats of ducks” but it’s pretty hard to maintain that dignified facade when you look like this.
