I hope you like birds (who doesn’t?), as we have several today. First are two photos of the house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) by Stephen Barnard in Idaho. I get lots of these on my lab windowsill, competing with the squirrels for sunflower seeds:
Finally some sun, but it’s cold. We’ve had about three feet of snow. The birds are crowding the feeders by the scores.
House Finch fluffed up against the cold. One flew into a window yesterday and was stunned. Time went by and he didn’t recover. I brought him inside, put him in a shoebox, covered it up, and waited about 1/2 hour. Off he flew.
Here are some birds from Montreal resident Anne-Marie Cournoyer:
A newcomer this week at our bird feeder. What a beautiful look! American Tree Sparrow, Spizella arborea. A rusty cap and rusty eyeline. Bicolored black and yellow bill.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis:
Black Capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillus. The bird feeder seemed small when we bought it. Here it looks bigger when compared with this Chickadee.
I took this picture about year ago and “enhanced” it using Adobe Photoshop to highlight the shapes and colours of the Moon’s surface.
Beautiful!
With the number of birds killed by window collisions (2 to 10% of the bird population in the US annually by one estimate I read) there must be significant selection going on. I wonder how their behavior is changing.
Nice photos Steve! Can’t wait to see what you get with your new digiscoping system!
You let the cat out of the bag. 🙂 It will be a long time, if ever, before I can approach your quality.
The blue sky behind the finches is gorgeous!
Nice moon.
Beautiful birds!
The moon shot provides a great sense of the ruggedness of the terrain along the terminator. Those rims and ridges look huge.
I was going to say the same thing about the moon pic. Fascinating!
Lovely pictures.
Woke up early, bleary eyed, no morning coffee, only to scroll down to a picture with striped fallow fields in the deeply shadowed foreground, a high mesa with snowy top, and perched near the summit the Feathered Colossus, Tree Sparrow uber alles. Oh wait . . .
Great pictures!
Lovely birds, Stephen & Anne-Marie!