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Image Bluebird with Insect
This bluebird sat on a telephone wire for a minute or so, then saw an insect below and dropped like a rock to the ground to catch it. Then it flew to these ...
Image White-eyed Vireo
Had the camera turned the wrong way and missed the tail, but oh well. You can see the white eye nicely.
Image Yellow-breasted Chat Singing with Head/Neck Wag, #2
This bird wagged its head way over to be leaning beyond horizontal, and then wagged it back the other way, with a central craning of the neck straight up, all ...
Image Sweetgum Leaves
I was waiting on a bird to appear, and saw the late afternoon light on these small sweetgums. Digiscoped with Leica APO Televid 77/Nikon D200/50mm lens, which ...
Image Gray Catbird
This Gray Catbird was making the familiar loud call while perching in thick briars, with red unripe blackberries. Then it popped up to this limb and postured ...
Image Yellow-breasted Chat Singing with Head/Neck Wag, #1
This bird moved from tree to tree calling loudly over the course of the 10 minutes or so I watched it. On this perch there was a dramatic side-to-side wag of ...
Image Yellow-breasted Chat Singing, Side View
After doing the head/neck wag on another perch, this bird flew to this tree, where it was in shade for the photograph, which shows the bird singing at full ...
Image Turkey Vulture 2
In this photograph, the turkey vulture cranes the neck forward, for the more classic pose, with that hunched look coming from the curve of the wing at the top ...
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Image Inca Doves in Pines, #1
This pair of Inca Doves had been in the sand on the ground and flushed up to a small pine where they sat a few minutes and preened. The one of the right flared ...
Image Blue-grey Gnatcatcher, Feeding Young, #1
Feed Me!
Image Blue-grey Gnatcatcher, Feeding Young, #2
Feed Me More!
Image Turkey Vulture in Pine Tree
When I was photographing the gnatcatchers feeding their young, a Turkey Vulture flew in and lit on a large pine branch. It walked around on the branch a few ...
Image Downy Woodpecker on Nest, #4
In the hole
Image Cedar Waxwings in Context
The group of waxwings was perched atop a magnolia tree.
Image Yellow-breasted Chat
These birds are even more fascinating than I thought. Their call is a wild mix of agressive-sounding chucks and strong whistley chortles, punctuated by pauses ...
Image Field Trip on Rush Creek
I helped lead a field trip to Rush Creek, Tyler County, Texas, with Randall Terry, for Jim Westgate's Big Thicket field course for college teachers. Here ...
Image Carolina Chickadee Launching
This Carolina Chickadee had just launched from a branch. The initial launch is like a surging dive from the branch, before they flare their wings for the first ...
Image Downy Woodpecker on Nest, #1
This bird repeatedly flew to small pine trees nearby to catch insects. The pines were only a few meters tall, and the woodpecker would land at the tops, the ...
Image Downy Woodpecker on Nest, #2
Downy Woodpeckers are small woodpeckers, with a short bill.
Image Downy Woodpecker on Nest, #3
Going into the hole...
Image Cedar Waxwings
These cedar waxwings were part of a group of about 10, later joined by half a dozen more, who were perched for a few minutes atop a magnolia tree. They had ...
Image Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Nest, in Context
Atop a branch in a maple tree, at the point where two smaller branches fork upward.
Image American Kestrel
This kestrel ate two dragonflies within 10 minutes, catching them about tree-top high, and returning to a tree-top perch to dine. Digiscoped with Leica APO ...
Image Turkey Vulture 1
Driving home, noticed a vertically elongate lump in a pine tree that became a turkey vulture. Long-distance digiscoping with zoom eyepiece turned to 30x. ...
Image Yellow-rumped Warbler
Digiscoped with Nikon D200, 50mm 1.8 lens, Leica APO Televid 77
Image Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly, Dorsal View
Taken with Nikon D200 and 135 mm Series E lens.
Image Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Nest Is Gone
A line of thunderstorms came through last night, and perhaps this was what knocked the nest out of the tree. I am not sure, because I didn't check the nest the ...
Image Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Drying
I didn't see it take a bath, but assume this is the required follow-up to one. After this, the bird flew to a nearby shrub and preened.
Image Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Preening
After a bath.
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