In honor of nature photography week, here are some of my favorites from over the years.

This plump little bird is a slate-colored of a dark-eyed junco, often commonly called a snow-bird. It came to our feeder New Year’s day last year, rummaging in the snow for seeds the other birds might have dropped from our feeders.

I met this rufous-sided towhee on a trail not far from my house ten years ago. Usually these striking birds are a little shy, scratching of insects in the litter of the shrubs on the mountainside, but he was singing his heart out, completely oblivious to me.