Head Crops…Er…Shots

July 18, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Bird Weekly Challenge: bird headshots

The Regulars

July 11, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Young sparrow and mom, Mourning doves, a goldfinch, and Baltimore oriole for Bird Weekly’s challenge: common birds for the season.

Hawk and Heron

July 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Bird Weekly challenge: ‘H’ birds.)

Speckled

June 14, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A few speckled birds for Bird Weekly challenge: stripes, spots, or freckles.

Species Mingling

June 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Blackbird chasing off a Red-tailed hawk Muscovy and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (from archives) (For Bird Weekly’s challenge: more than one species in a photo.)

You’ve Got Colour

May 16, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Red-breasted Nuthatch, Blue Jay, and Great Blue Heron. For Bird Weekly’s challenge: birds with colour in their names.

Birds In Flight

May 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

( For Bird Weekly challenge: birds in flight.)

Oh, Baby!

April 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Haven’t seen any chicks yet, so had to sift through the archives. Featured, the goslings are trying to keep up. Freshly hatched chicks. Not quite newborns, but young Ibis. (For Bird Weekly Challenge: baby birds)

Recent Encounters Of The Bird Kind

April 10, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A robin building her nest, an osprey with his dinner, a goldfinch and a red-bellied woodpecker guarding the nest. For Bird Weekly challenge: birds seen in the past two weeks.

Birds In Black and White

March 20, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An angry starling, a beady-eyed grackle, a red-wing blackbird, and a robin for Bird Weekly.

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)

Peachy Keen

Not Everything Is Defined by Age

As a child, I knew no limits, setting out on adventures with never a fear for how I’d find my way back home. Now, nestled in my home, I limit myself to certainties, fearful of risks. Some days, I wonder about that child, and how it would feel to wander freely, and it makes me […]