Category: bird photography
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Memorial Day Picnic for Baby Bluebirds
This spring has been an incredible time for bluebirds in Fairfax County. After photographing and videotaping a family of bluebirds for the last several weeks, earlier this weekend the feeding of the fledglings on our back deck commenced. Today, Memorial Day, the fledglings’ feeding frenzy went full tilt. Thanks to some patience and some nice…
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Bluebirds on The Big Day 2020
I hope everyone had a great Big Day 2020! Not sure if it is because we are just home more (and paying better attention) or if it some stroke of luck, but the birding within our porch view has just been amazing the last month or two. Below is an updated version of the bluebird…
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A Pileated Outside My (Home) Office Window
Last week while in my home office in Northern Virginia, my wife texted me from downstairs… look at the pileated! From my second story window I was nearly on the same level as this fantastic bird. Isn’t amazing what you can photograph in your own backyard?
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Morning Mouthful for visiting Bluebirds
This morning after the rain stopped, our visiting bluebirds continued their work gathering food for their home, bringing back bugs, many in one helping. Yesterday, the beautiful birds chowed on our mealworm feeder, in great abundance, shown below. If. you would like to see some more bluebirds, I hope you can visit my video post…
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Seeing The Bluebirds of Happiness in These Troubled Times
In the current crazy COVID-19 world we all find ourselves in today, it’s nice to know that nature, beauty and grace continue to go about their day, blessing us all in the process. We are especially fortunate this spring to have an “abundance” of bluebirds in our yard. It’s so nice to be able to…
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Snowy Egret Taking Off at Viera (Florida) Wetlands
This is another photo of the beautiful Snowy Egret I photographed at the Viera (Florida) Wetlands.
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Solitude at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland
I want to thank all the wonderful people who dropped by my booth at the Deep Creek Lake Art and Wine Festival yesterday. I enjoy meeting people and I always am interested to learn where folks are from, what they do (or did before they retired) and what brought them to the Western Maryland Area. I…
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Backyard Birding on a Saturday Afternoon
(please see second photo below)
I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine 