Category: Birdhouse
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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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Snowy Egret at Viera (Florida) Wetlands
I had the great fortune to visit the Viera Wetlands during a recent trip to Central Florida, where I photographed this Snowy Egret. (please see second photo below)
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A Hawaiian Cardinal
Cardinals are very common in Virginia. The Cardinal is even the state bird.
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A Year Ago This Week on ISBAA : The Pileated Woodpecker
This blog went daily a year ago and I have been fortunate to have a lot of new followers come along for the ride since. I have recently began reposting popular photos I placed on this blog a year ago. When you see a pileated woodpecker, you know its a pileated. This woodpecker is big…
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Weekly Photo Challenge : What I Treasure
As a photographer, the thing I treasure the most is nature. It did not start out that way. (please see more photos and text below)
I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine 