“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.

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.

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.

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

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.