Category: Photography

The Red-winged Blackbirds are back in town. How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the top ten birds – Dan Bennett

Red-breasted Nuthatch “There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Hey hey! An extra day to go birding!

Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks in Weslaco, Texas at the Valley Nature Center.

This Dark-eyed Junco seemed overwhelmed by the heavy snow. We received about a foot of snow and this winter season we are already well above average for total snowfall. To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. –Gore

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This is one of the three Montgomery family Great Horned owlets. The family was raised on the Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb, Illinois in early 2007. A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren’t we like

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Cooper Was Here Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You’d see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically. –Steven Wright

Black-capped Chickadee – heading in for a landing. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. -Joseph Addison