Articles tagged with: wing
Impossibly complex abstraction reigns,
cobbling together a life from scavenged freedom.
Vultures from a trip to South Beach earlier this year.
Just a portion of the sky filled with hundreds of birds
near the Oleta River.
. . . and a detail:
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Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura
Alert to the rumor of twilights past and still to come,
a Black-crowned Nightn Heron hunts,
its understated style belying
a complex personality as simple
as a solar eclipse.
From a trip to Miami Beach in March 2010.
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Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax
Slipping past me, a jay’s sudden leap,
a memory of beating wings create a slight
disturbance in a rattletrap universe.
One of the many birds featured in
my book Aerial Acrobats: Life lived in the air.
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Blue jay | Cyanocitta cristata
“This madness between us can’t go on any longer.”
“You despise me, don’t you?”
“If I gave you any thought I probably would.”
A male songbird clearly has a problem learning
to let go of a cute dame.
A cold summer turned to a cold fall here,
no place for a spring goldfinch
looking for news from the sun.
The wise old grackle says,
“Despite snow today, Spring is on its way”.
A game of tag or something more serious? Two female finches rush past me in a backyard chase.
This image also appears in my book, Aerial Acrobats.
Streaking gold through my backyard, a male goldfinch is gone before I can look up.
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American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis
A nice late winter day, the competitive grackles were back this week.
Like the determined relative of the orioles below, one of the images featured in my Aerial Acrobats book, they are aggressive, noisy and entertaining.
Too much rain, I’m springing forward to better weather along with this fierce female cardinal, showcasing her bedraggled comb.
The water stands higher than anytime I can remember in our backyard, birds are having a hard time feeding since yesterday.
Below, a soaked sparrow hovers in a light rain.
