Articles tagged with: wing

15 Aug 2010 | 5 Comments | Birds »

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.
 
Vultures near the Oleta River

. . . and a detail:
Vultures near the Oleta River

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Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura

27 Jun 2010 | 6 Comments | Birds »

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.

 
A Black-crowned Night Heron hunts

 From a trip to Miami Beach in March 2010.

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Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax

6 May 2010 | 3 Comments | Birds »

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.


A Blue jay's sudden leap

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Blue jay | Cyanocitta cristata

10 Nov 2009 | 10 Comments | Birds »

“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.

Male songbird clearly has a problem learning to let go of a cute dame

22 Oct 2009 | 8 Comments | Birds »

A cold summer turned to a cold fall here,
no place for a spring goldfinch
looking for news from the sun.

 
Goldfinch looks for news from the sun

7 Apr 2009 | 14 Comments | Birds »

The wise old grackle says,

“Despite snow today, Spring is on its way”.
A grackle proverb

2 Apr 2009 | 6 Comments | Birds »

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.
Finches in flight

22 Mar 2009 | 8 Comments | Birds »

Streaking gold through my backyard, a male goldfinch is gone before I can look up.

Goldfinch in flight

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American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis

15 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | Birds »

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.
Grackle

10 Mar 2009 | 7 Comments | Birds »

Too much rain, I’m springing forward to better weather along with this fierce female cardinal, showcasing her bedraggled comb.
Cardinal

8 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | Birds »

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.
Sparrow