Female cardinal that came to visit
A screech owl that was trapped in a garage. That wing display wasn't
posed,
it is just the way it landed.
We caught and released it. That's my gloved hand holding it in the
second picture.
A goldfinch on our porch railing and ready for its close-up.
Female ruby throated hummingbird coming in for a landing.
The male also made a safe landing despite some flight path congestion
on approach.
Another goldfinch that came to our porch.
A northern flicker.
A male purple finch
A slate-colored variety of the dark-eyed junco
A sharp shinned hawk. We had to hold him to show you his talons.
You can see he is quite small for a hawk.
A couple of wild turkeys Nancy and I saw in the back yard of my son's
home in NJ.
I
didn't need macro or telephoto lens for these shots.
We were walking along a path and spotted this little fellow on a branch
about 2 feet off the ground.
He was very still while I took several pictures and was still there
half an hour later.
He is a robin fledgling.
A little Black-capped Chickadee that visited in December.
A flock of Eastern Bluebirds came through in December as well.
They checked out the accommodations we have provided near our
house.
They have moved on but I hope that they will be back in the spring.
For these pictures I tried out a new telephoto lens that I am just
learning to use.
Nancy took several pictures of this visitor to our front deck.
A White-breasted
nuthatch.
She used a Nikon 5400 and was shooting in the macro mode.
A Yellowbellied Sapsucker (don't you just love that name).
He didn't seem to mind showing off his wing markings.
A hooded crow we saw in Egypt.
A Brown Pelican from Ecuador taken with a Kenko 8X afocal telescope attached to my camera.
This isn't a typical dive for fish, possibly he changed his mind at the last moment.
The Peruvian race of the Brown Pelican found in this area is considered a separate species by some authors.
It is larger than the other races, has fine white streaking on the feathers of the underparts, and has a blue pouch in the breeding season.
This little bird visited us in Kentucky in October.
We think she is a Magnolia Warbler in her way south for the first time.