Tag: birds
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Corvids Carrying Cargo Create Conundrums
Two corvids carry stuff in their beaks, but offer no answers as to what … or why.
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Say’s Phoebe Nesting Material
Say’s Phoebes are birds that flew under my radar for a long time — they aren’t big, they aren’t small, they aren’t flashy, and their song is just two slurred notes. It was the song that eventually caught my ear, and led me to figure out what I was hearing, and seeing. Since then, I’ve…
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Hummingbirds Nesting
I am an opportunistic bird photographer — I photograph them when I see them. That means that late spring, I take my camera with me everywhere. (My husband tells me that presents certain problems, but our marriage survives on the strength of the other 11 months, I guess.) But that means that I had my…
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Birds and Bunnies
An American Goldfinch has been at the feeder for the past two days. Thirty years ago, I saw one of these guys and thought somebody’s parakeet had escaped. Researching what it was started me on a lifetime of bird watching. White-breasted Nuthatch making off with a sunflower chip. If you look closely at this shot,…
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Woodpecker Week
It was Woodpecker Week these last few days! The Front Range has three different common types of woodpecker, and at least one of each kind came tapping around our neighborhood. First up: The bird every homeowner loves to hate — Northern Flickers. This male demonstrates why. This is the red-shafted variety of Northern Flicker. Both…
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Cedar Waxwings
There is a tree along the walk that my husband and I take every morning with the dogs. It’s a chokecherry tree. Every spring it is covered in beautiful pink blossoms. But in late winter, it is loaded with last year’s chokecherries. And sometimes, the cedar waxwings visit. I think they are very beautiful birds…
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Mama Owl Back On Her Nest
For the first time in since before the Big Freeze, my husband and I walked along the greenbelt introduced to us last year by our friend Anne. I don’t think either of us really expected to see much — it’s January, for crying out loud! But we needed to see something besides the inside of…
Amy Law, Science Geek 