#birds the real dinosaur won.

#astro after getting home from seeing Hail Mary at the movies, I needed a quick burst of the universe, clear night in Palm Springs, so off to De Mairan’s.

#birds Just a Robin in the forest.

#birds Steller’s Jay, Mt San Jacinto, SoCal.

#birds Yard buddy.

#birds red-tailed rising

#birds Ibis fly-by.

Vermillion Flycatcher.

#birds Black Phoebe water yoga.

#birds Test printed a few of my photos on to metal. Super fun.

#birds female Downey who loves a beautiful piece of wood.

#birds Female Ruby Throated showing off her tail feathers in Michigan.

#birds white breasted nuthatch hanging vertical in predator mode.

#birds Ruby-throated at a Lake Michigan sunset.

#birds White Breasted Nuthatch hanging vertical….

#birds Female Cardinals are cooler, change my mind.

#birds quick bit of birding in Chicago.

#birds Lake Michigan at sunset.

#birds The classic Downy Woodpecker morning stretch.

#birds when woodpeckers walk up a tree their feet leave the ground.

#birds I’m working on a theory that Cardinals have long been faking flying, they can actually only jump.

#astro Orion Nebula my yard vs. Hubble. We take the loss but kind of amazing to see the same thing…

#birds New day, new woodpecker. Today the tree was visited by a female red bellied. Who knows what woodpecker tomorrow will bring…

#birds A great Michigan hike has an Indigo Bunting.

#birds Female Downy Woodpecker. She likes to stuff and run.

#birds Downy Woodpecker with his Lake Michigan breakfast.

#birds Geronimo!

#birds if you get lost in Chicago look up and a black crowned night heron will point the way.

#birds Living Desert Zoo, Palm Desert, CA. In the wallaby exhibit there is a Tawny Frogmouth happily nesting in a tree by the trail. Really cool.

#birds Here in the desert there are deadly predators, part 2.