#BookReview: The Feather Wars by James H. McCommons (via @stmartinspress.bsky.social). Dense Academic Treatise With Not Quite Enough Bibliography.
#amreading #nonfiction #history #birding #orinthology #conservation #birds #ecology #SilentSpring #UnitedStates #BookSky💙📚💡
This flicker didn't appreciate it when I discovered it's nest and set up a tripod to capture a few images.
#birds #birdsofbluesky #BirdOfTheDay #originalphoto #wildlife #canonwildlifephotography #orinthology #commonflicker
Just a mallard floating past... Let's look at pretty birds, and ignore the international conflagration taking place in our names.
#BirdOfTheDay #blueskybirds #birds #originalphoto #mallard #orinthology #canonwildlifephotography #wildlife #middleTN
This male bluebird was making certain I got a shot of his good side.
#birds #malebluebird #BirdOfTheDay
#originalphotography #middleTN #orinthology #blueskybirds
#canonwildlifephotography #wildlife #bokeh
Juvenile great horned own staring at the camera from a pine tree limb.
Even the juvenile great horned owls are equipped with massive talons. This little one was watching us from a pine tree at Honeymoon Island State Park many years ago.
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #greathornedowl #juvieowl #HoneymoonIsland #originalphotography #orinthology
Waterthrush holding multiple birds in its beak near a creek in the Smokey Mountains.
Waterthrush holding bugs in its beak near a creek in the Smokey Mountains National Park. Not certain of the identification.
A little help identifying this bird? Photo taken in the Smokey Mountains, east Tennessee. Is this a Louisiana waterthrush? It was hunting near a creek.
#birds #canonwildlifephotography #originalphoto #SmokeyMountains #Louisianawaterthrush #mysterybird #birdidentification #orinthology
Photo of a male rose breasted grosbeak perched atop a shepherd's pole, with catch-eye glint reflection. This species migrates through middle Tennessee twice a year, usually accompanied by or in conjuction with indigo buntings.
Male rose breasted grosbeak, eyeing the camera.
#birds #canonwildlifephotography #songbirds #rosebreastedgrosbeak #orinthology #migrationbird
juvenile green heron with frog in mouth. Photo taken at Murfree Springs wetlands area Murfreesboro Tn
Believe this is a juvenile green heron having breakfast. I call it "A Bad Day for Kermit" Taken at Murfree Springs wetlands area, Murfreesboro Tn.
#birds #canonwildlifephotography #originalphoto #greenheron #orinthology
Taking a step away from the abyss to do a mind-cleanse by photographing songbirds on icy maple limbs. We might all end up sharing concentration camp stories of our happy birding days, so let's get them while we can.
#birds #bluebird #cardinal #goldfinch #orinthology #originalphotography #midTN
As democracy swirls down the drain, I have to find mental health distractions. A yellow bellied sapsucker landed on one of our suet feeders, and that was a therapeutic, momentary break from current events.
#birds #yellowbelliedsapsucker #FDJT #orinthology
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A yellow-rumped warbler is #Walking, or skating, on a frozen ditch after a cold spring night.
#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography #orinthology #NatureIsArt #Manitoba
The ONLY part of this impending ice storm I'm looking forward to is getting a chance take a few shots like this one from our last ice event here in middle TN.
#birds #cardinal #icestorm #originalphoto #orinthology
My dad fed birds throughout my entire childhood, a dozen feeders in our front yard. I never understood it. Then I got into photography, and discovered I had learned quite a bit about bird behavior from the man. He would've been proud of some of my pix!
#birds #originalphotos #orinthology
Bald eagle at Honeymoon Island State Park in Floriduh. My sister had taken my wife and I to this park during a visit, and had loaned me a beat up Canon 30D as my first digital camera for the trip. I've upgraded half a dozen times, since.
#birds #wildlife #orinthology #originalphoto #HoneymoonIsland
How embarrassing!
This yellow crowned night heron was casually walking down the handrail at Murfree Springs wetlands, being way too cool, when one of his feet slipped off the rail. What followed was hilarious...
#birds #yellowcrownednightheron #orinthology #originalphotography
Found an old vine in the woods, stained it and tied it to a shepherd's pole above a mealworm feeder for a bluebird prop. Birds and Blooms Magazine published this one several years ago, and it's still one of my favorite shots.
#birds #orinthology #bluebird
Eurasian Wigeon on my patch doing its best impressions of a yank wigeon. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🦉 #ukbirding #orinthology #dorsetbirds #birds
Stepping away from the abyss to look at photos from my archives. This male bluebird was posing on a prop I had fastened to a shepherd's pole outside my office window. Birds and Blooms magazine published it a while back.
#birds #bluebird #orinthology #birdsandblooms
American Kestral, Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #amerciankestral #birds #birdseenin2025merican #kestrals #birdsofprey #biodiversity #birdwatching #birdlovers #biodiversity #orinthologyphotography #orinthology #wildlifeconservation #wildbirdphotography #birdoftheday #wildbird
This is a green heron.
I’ve only seen this bird once at the park but it was fascinating to watch - and small! I was used to herons being tall and lanky.
#photography #fujifilm #orinthology
Stepping away from the abyss to look at photos from my archives... stumbled across this shot of a little green heron dropping down to a lower limb over the Murfree Springs wetlands in Murfreesboro, Tn. Love herons!
#birds #greenheron #originalphotography #middleTN #orinthology #FDJT #VolSky
A black and white photograph of a Great Blue Heron resting on a branch in the water.
My favorite photo subject as of late.
The Great Blue Heron
Photographed with a vintage Nikkor-H 300mm f/4.5
#orinthology #photography
#birds #oklahoma #wildlife #photography #carolinawren #wren #birding #wildbirds #orinthology #birdpics #pics
#northerncardinal #female #birds #birds #oklahoma #birding #orinthology #wildlife #nature #birdsky #summer #red #photography #birdphotography
#birds #oklahoma #wildlife #photography #nature #birdsky #orinthology #bird #backyardbirds #animals #cardinal
Wood ducks use almost every hue in the artist's toolbox. This one was taken along the Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tn.
#birds #woodduck #originalphotography #orinthology
Mallard Fillmore coming in for a landing at the Murphy Springs wetlands in Murfreesboro, Tn. I like the bokeh behind this in-flight capture.
#birds #mallard #inflight #originalphotography #nature #orinthology
I'm taking a break from the political insanity to prevent my own.
Here's a male bluebird doing bluebird stuff...
#birds #orinthology #originalphotography #nature #bluebird
#TrumpisaFacist #resist #ishedeadyet
