I moved into this house in Feb. 1991 & it never once reached a temperature of 102 deg. F. in all those years... This week, it has reached that temperature on two separate days... including today
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...
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"
In case you missed my brag & boast about our Limpkins at Fontainebleau State Park on the northshore of New Orleans. They were easily visible around the fish pond on Friday morning, as was the scatter of their discarded apple snails.
A Loggerhead Shrike fledgling sits on a branch. This little birb is approaching independence slowly but don't worry, one of the parents is watching over from a nearby tree.
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...