Articles tagged with: wing

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 | 10 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 | 6 Comments | Birds »

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

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

3 Mar 2009 | 4 Comments | Birds »

A warning cry for a violation of invisible territorial rights. Is it more than a bluff?

A forgotten tiff has it’s two year anniversary.
Sparrows fight

22 Feb 2009 | 3 Comments | Birds »

This songbird wins an Oscar for an overwrought performance in the remake of “Birdy”.
Sparrow

12 Feb 2009 | 6 Comments | Birds »

A backyard house finch, cousin to the finches which helped inspire Charles Darwin to develop the principles of natural selection and change our understanding of the world.
Finch