Waubay NWR, SD: 6-19

Male Red-winged Blackbird

Female Red-winged Blackbird

Male American Goldfinch

The American Goldfinch is the state bird of NJ, WA and Iowa.

Bird Island: 3-27-20

Cattle Egret in breeding finery

Bills come in all shapes and sizes - structure determines their function

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Anchored in the bayou

Young of the year Great Blue Herons

Many White ibises roost on Bird island thought they don’t not there

Each morning they leave typically heading north to feed

Northern Shovelers: Feb, CA

Pair (female in the back)

Female

 

Depending on the light, the head feathers on the males can appear blue

or green.

Ft Whyte, Alive Nature Park, Winnipeg: 7-20

Eastern Ribbon Snake

Diet: The Eastern Ribbon Snakes are known to feed on amphibians. Their diet includes small fishes, frogs, toads, tadpoles, salamanders and insects. The chances of you finding a female Eastern Ribbon Snake eating her own offspring are quite high. They hunt during the mornings and early evenings. They do not bite or tear the prey but swallow them whole. 

Clay-colored Sparrow (Audio confirmed)

Flycatcher

West Coast pics: Feb 2020

Snow Geese

Black Phoebe

Pair of Gadwall ducks: female on the right

Look for Gadwall on small bodies of water with plenty of aquatic vegetation; Gadwall often feed in slightly deeper water than other dabbling ducks. They associate with many other duck species, and on a quick scan you may miss the males because of their subdued brown appearance—keep an eye out for their black rear ends, white wing-patch (formed by the inner secondary feathers), and intricately patterned, not streaked or spotted, plumage.

Willet

House Finch

Gregarious and social, House Finches are found in noisy groups that are hard to miss if present. Look for House Finches feeding on the ground or at bird feeders, or perching high in nearby trees

White-crowned Sparrow, Pacific

Photo potpouri

American Bittern

Our Percula Clowns in their anemone

Lindsay in the V-birth on the Delphinus with travel partners, Snoopy

Colorful collage of kayaks at the dock on the Sacramento River before our trip with Dear Edith, First Mate Barb Fitzgerald and Captain Ronn, El Jefe, Patterson on the River Dolphin

Orchids in Dear Dorothy Thompson’s room

Willet in flight at Ft Desoto’s East Beach last Thursday before the park closed.

So cute!

Black-crowned Night-Herons on Bird Island: 3-14-20

Black-crowned Night-Herons are stocky birds compared to many of their long-limbed heron relatives. They’re most active at night or at dusk, when you may see their ghostly forms flapping out from daytime roosts to forage in wetlands. In the light of day adults are striking in gray-and-black plumage and long white head plumes. These social birds breed in colonies of stick nests usually built over water. They live in fresh, salt, and brackish wetlands and are the most widespread heron in the world.