A Dark-eyed junco poses on top of laser cut swallows made from 1/10th inch thick steel.

Dark-eyed junco says “I can pose too!”

#Metalbirds make good perches! 🪶

A yard ornament of a couple swallows facing each other laser cut from metal has a monarch butterfly resting on it in the afternoon sun.

🎶 Bird and Butterfly 🎵
Apologies to Heart 😁
Possibly the same male Monarch butterfly as earlier today, a male anyway. Resting up on the #Metalbirds
#invertes Western population

Blue sky with two white fluffy clouds touching. In the little strip of blue before they touch, the sun is just peaking through causing light rays to shoot out. The elite flying group- Blue Angels have been having fly overs the last couple of days in celebration of the Navy’s 250th anniversary. Today as we were walking into the house from the cottage they flew directly overhead, shaking the house and ground. It was stunning- so reminded me of growing up on and around military bases where flying machines were based. Yes, I whooped it up as I did when a kid! Love our fly boys and girls! Respect for our vets!

Blue Angels

Blue metal birds fly,
Right above my house and home.
They still watch over me.

I grew up with Blue Angel pilots in our home all the time; in my father’s Navy circle.
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#Stunday #stunning #shooktheground #metalbirds #blueangels #EastCoastKin #Navy #jets #flyover #angels #haiku #poetry

A different kind of bird... at again at an unusual angle. A pair of USAF HH-60 Pave Hawk taken at eye level from the cliff of Cape Disapointment as it patrolled the shore... scaring all the Eagles.

#birdwatching #metalbirds
#10milliondollarbird
#usaf #militaryhelicopter #helicopter #birdsinflight

I got a couple new buddies for my gardens this weekend! I still need to name them. What do you think their names are? #garden #gardening #lawnornaments #metalbirds #raven #crow #redbird #burds #🌱

The snow is all gone, but here are a few more images from lasts Friday.
Lots of buds waiting for warmer weather.
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#metalbirds #clematis #hydrangea #rosehips #todayinthebackyard

The #metalbirds have returned and the #nestboxes are up again.

I'm not holding out much hope that violet-green swallows will find my boxes, but hopefully the chickadees will use them.
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#NiceNests #todayinthebackyard

i spent almost a full minute figuring out what I was looking at, and how you got those birds photographed that way. Then, #metalbirds and it fell into place!

Black and white photo of two metal swallowtails on a perch. The art is coming off an old barn. There are icicles behind them.

#metalbirds #photography #winter

Metal raven 
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Sun peaking through metal bird hawk
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