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!
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.)
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...
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...
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.
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...