American Pipit – After The Bath
I try to avoid assigning emotions to birds (not always successfully) but I swear this was one joyful little pipit.
Category: Bathing
Canada Geese – Bathing Upside Down
White-crowned Sparrow – A Common Bird In An Uncommon Pose
I suspect feathers can’t endure much more flexure stress than this without breaking.
Immature Western Tanager After A Dainty Bath
A Sampling Of Birds In The Mountains Yesterday Morning
Bathing And Wing-flapping Pied-billed Grebe
Late yesterday afternoon this thoughtful grebe took pity on me and saved my day at almost the last minute.
Spotted Sandpiper Chicks And Behaviors
Three days ago I found the Spotted Sandpiper chicks again and they were closer than they were last time.
Strange Bathing Behavior From A Pied-billed Grebe
After this many years of observing birds carefully I seldom see behaviors that are new to me in common species. But 12 days ago I did.
A Handsome Coot?
And I’ll be damned. I think I’d even call this coot handsome. Or at least stately and dignified and that doesn’t happen every day with this species.
Juvenile Burrowing Owls – The Clowns Of The Bird World
A Kingfisher And….. A Cop
After so many kingfisher posts recently it was my intention to post a different species today. However, events of yesterday warranted otherwise. Those events include “my” male Belted Kingfisher being cooperative again, several fascinating kingfisher behaviors and an unexpected and potentially very unpleasant encounter with a local cop..
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 1
This quite young and still clumsy youngster almost seemed to enjoy showing off for me.
A Wet Yellow Warbler Fledgling
Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play.
Gulls, Brine Flies, Spiders And Robert Kirby
I’ll confess I don’t pay a lot of attention to gulls but when the brine flies are out their feeding antics can be both interesting and entertaining.
Another Nasty Encounter Between An Owl And A Barbed Wire Fence
Many readers will remember the Barn Owl I had to cut out of barbed wire last summer in Montana. At the time I only had a small, cheap and dull pair of wire cutters with me and the effort required to cut the thick double-stranded wire strained tendons in my arm that took several weeks to heal. So I invested in two new heavy-duty pairs of wire cutters to carry in my pickup in case I ever came across a similar situation again. It’s a darn good thing I did.
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Canada Geese – Bathing Upside Down
White-crowned Sparrow – A Common Bird In An Uncommon Pose
I suspect feathers can’t endure much more flexure stress than this without breaking.
Immature Western Tanager After A Dainty Bath
A Sampling Of Birds In The Mountains Yesterday Morning
Bathing And Wing-flapping Pied-billed Grebe
Late yesterday afternoon this thoughtful grebe took pity on me and saved my day at almost the last minute.
Spotted Sandpiper Chicks And Behaviors
Three days ago I found the Spotted Sandpiper chicks again and they were closer than they were last time.
Strange Bathing Behavior From A Pied-billed Grebe
After this many years of observing birds carefully I seldom see behaviors that are new to me in common species. But 12 days ago I did.
A Handsome Coot?
And I’ll be damned. I think I’d even call this coot handsome. Or at least stately and dignified and that doesn’t happen every day with this species.
Juvenile Burrowing Owls – The Clowns Of The Bird World
A Kingfisher And….. A Cop
After so many kingfisher posts recently it was my intention to post a different species today. However, events of yesterday warranted otherwise. Those events include “my” male Belted Kingfisher being cooperative again, several fascinating kingfisher behaviors and an unexpected and potentially very unpleasant encounter with a local cop..
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 1
This quite young and still clumsy youngster almost seemed to enjoy showing off for me.
A Wet Yellow Warbler Fledgling
Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play.
Gulls, Brine Flies, Spiders And Robert Kirby
I’ll confess I don’t pay a lot of attention to gulls but when the brine flies are out their feeding antics can be both interesting and entertaining.
Another Nasty Encounter Between An Owl And A Barbed Wire Fence
Many readers will remember the Barn Owl I had to cut out of barbed wire last summer in Montana. At the time I only had a small, cheap and dull pair of wire cutters with me and the effort required to cut the thick double-stranded wire strained tendons in my arm that took several weeks to heal. So I invested in two new heavy-duty pairs of wire cutters to carry in my pickup in case I ever came across a similar situation again. It’s a darn good thing I did.