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peachfront, 13 days ago to Birds

Not the best photo I took today in a technical sense but the best for personal reasons... I haven't documented Brown-headed Nuthatches in the yard since we lost the last of our oaks in Hurricane Katrina 19 years ago!

#bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #Project365 #PhotoADay #Photograph #PhotographyChallenge #BirdPhotography #GardenBirds

peachfront, 14 days ago to Birds

Didn't realize I captured a photo of this lifer...

Quail-Plover

#bird #birds #birding #Photograph #BirdPhotography #RareSpecies #Senegal #WestAfrica #outdoors #nature #wildlife #birdwatching

peachfront, 14 days ago to Birds

Today's #Project365 centered on two fledgling House Sparrows I saw placed in a dark corner by their mom before she left them...

"Lil bro, I got a bad feeling here. Mama ain't coming back."
"How'm I the lil bro? We the same size."
"Point is, we gotta get our own food now."
"Oh, wonderful, just how I wanted to wake up today."

(They did eventually go to the feeders on their own.)

#birds #birding #sparrows #PhotographyChallenge #Photograph #PhotoADay #BirdPhotography #outdoors #BabyBirds #Nature

peachfront, 16 days ago to Birds

It drizzle, and this is unfair to Red-headed Woodpeckers...

#bird #birds #birding #BirdWatching #woodpecker #nesthole #Photograph #BirdPhotography

peachfront, 21 days ago to Birds

This female Downy Woodpecker looks a bit tense, but it's because she's waiting on this branch for her turn at the suet feeder, and I think she's concerned about bigger liner-breakers coming along like the irritable Mockingbird that semi-regularly knocks her off...

#bird #birds #birding #woodpecker #GardenBirds #Photograph #BirdPhotography

peachfront, 21 days ago to Birds

"i see you but i don't think i like you"-- Inspector Blue Jay

#bird #birds #birding #GardenBirds #BirdPhotography #Photograph

peachfront, 26 days ago to Birds

mighty hunter

striated heron

#bird #birds #birding #heron #BirdPhotography #EarthDay #Photography

peachfront, 1 month ago to Birds

"Silent Sunday is all very well for some but others of us are being mobbed by fleas"- harassed Osprey

#birds #birding #Osprey #mobbing #bulbul #Africa #BirdPhotography #funny #SIlentSunday

peachfront, 1 month ago to photography

Working through my trip photos, trying to figure out how to develop them. May have already posted a similar photo from this series? Malachite Kingfishers do not allow themselves to be distracted by lowly humans so they make good practice subjects...

#bird #BirdPhotography #Photography #Outdoors #Africa #Senegal #Kingfisher

peachfront, 1 month ago to Birds

Two African Fish Eagles sit together to survey their world. The larger, stockier bird on the lower branch is the female. The slighter bird sitting protectively above her & turned to regard the viewer is the male.

Note: When zooming in hard on this photograph, I can see that the male has lost his right eye, but it doesn't seem to be slowing him down any.

#love #spring #birds #birding #eagles #pairs #BirdPhotography #PhotoADay #PhotographyChallenge #wetland #Djoudj #Senegal #WestAfrica

peachfront, 1 month ago to USpolitics

neighbor who used to fly the pro-lynching flag put up the RFK Jr. lawn sign so that tells you the kind of person who supports that guy-- they're not "independents" or disgruntled Dems, they're virus-spreading white supremacists

side note

all flags & signs in our neighborhood came down a few weeks ago, from the friendly pro library & rainbow flags to the hate stuff like the last die-hard Trump/Pence sign with Pence whited out but i guess now the haters are creeping back...

#USPolitics

peachfront, 1 month ago to Birds

Goliath Heron, the biggest & stompiest heron of them all

#Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Bird #Birds #BirdPhotography #Photography #PhotographyChallenge

peachfront, 1 month ago to Birds

i wuz snoozing, if you ain't got coffee, keep it moving

#bird #birds #BirdPhotography #Project365 #PhotoADay #PhotographyChallenge #WildlifeWednesday

peachfront, 1 month ago to Birds

If you have fish breath, you're in trouble, my friend.

#bird #birds #eagle #flying #BirdPhotography #Photography #PhotographyChallenge #Project365 #PhotoADay #Africa

peachfront, 2 months ago to Birds

A new cutie offered to be my friend...

Noisy because he appeared around sunset & the ISO was sky high

#bird #birds #wildlife #photography #BirdPhotography #Project265 #Fotomontag #Photomonday

peachfront, 2 months ago to photography

Can you name this waterfall in just one note?

#photography #waterfall #landscape #Africa

peachfront, 3 months ago to Birds

Love is in the air!

#birds #Project365 #PhotoADay #PhotographyChallenge #bird #love #cute

peachfront, 3 months ago to random

my parrot's favorite song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOypSnKFHrE

peachfront, 3 months ago to Birds

My sweet hummingbird who stayed in the near garden started Jan 5 seems to have migrated... I checked my notes & she came & went about the same time last year so I won't blame the terrible hailstorm we had the other night...

This collage is from 2023, we didn't have anywhere near as many Rufous this year in my yard

#birds #bird #hummingbird #hummingbirds

peachfront, 3 months ago to photography

When these two flew down to sit together on the back of my office chair, I knew I had the image for today's Project 365.

(These are rescue borbs, Nyota the Lovebird was found after Hurricane Isaac in 2012, 27-year-old Cockatiel Boobear outlived his first owner & came to me with significant grief & crying issues-- they've both been doing great for years)

#photography #PhotographyChallenge #Project365 #365Project #Birds #PetBirds #Lovebird #Cockatiel #Lovebirds #Cockatiels #Cute #Love #Affection

peachfront, 3 months ago to Hummingbirds

woke up at first light, it was 28 deg F- ran out to put up hummingbird feeders & a hummingbird (I think the same one I photo'd yesterday!) immediately came for the goodies--

at this temp the sugar molecules will keep the sugar water from freezing.... much cooler, & i keep back a feeder to swap out when the other one starts to freeze...

it warms my heart to know they're watching us & think at least some of us can be relied on

#hummingbird #hummingbirds #Louisiana #ArcticBlast

peachfront, 3 months ago to photography

"my garden is crispy frozen & i blame you"-- nonetheless, this hummingbird spent the night in the garden (i saw where she perched) so she'd be here at first light for first drink from the feeders

#Project365 #Photography #PhotographyChallenge #bird #birds #hummingbird #hummingbirds #ArcticBlast

peachfront, 4 months ago to Birds

Today's project365 photo is a Pine Warbler waiting for its turn at the suet on a rusty old wind chime

#Bird, #Birds, #Photography, #Photograph, #Project365, #PhotographyChallenge

peachfront, 4 months ago to art

My notes from 2011 are the worst but I'm pretty sure this was in the Tate Modern & I'm somewhat sure it was called something like, "Am I Late for the Film?" or "Am I Late for the Party? a feeling we've all had at that stage of life I suppose-- anybody recognize this or know who the artist was

#PhotoAndArt #Photograph #art #kunst #ModernArt

peachfront, 4 months ago to Birds

It's not a technically good photo but one of my favorite #BirdPhotography photos for 2023 is this first try at a hummingbird in the rain called, "A light in a dark forest"

#birds #hummingbirds #Photograph