A photo of many male and female house sparrows (Passer domesticus), small brown songbirds, lined up on a wooden fence in a back yard, along with one peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), a small green parrot with a bright peach-colored face and blue feathers above its tail, in the middle of all the other birds. Trees and a house are visible in the background in late afternoon lighting.

For the first year we lived in our previous house, a large number of house sparrows would forage in our yard almost constantly, and they were usually joined by someone's escaped lovebird who seemed to adopt them as its flock. I tried to tame it, but I never could. #BirdOfTheDay #Groups

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Today’s #birdoftheday theme is #notabranch (birds perched on anything but a branch). Here‘re my contributions: an eastern mockingbird perched on a utility pole, and a juvenile red-tail perched on a fence.

#wildlifephotorgaphy #urbandwildlife #mockingbird #red-tailedhawk

Swallowtail feeding on pickerelweed, a native plant commonly found in wetlands. Swallowtails are abundant this time of year, but will soon go dormant for the winter.

Westend, Atlanta, Georgia.

#naturephotography #wildlifephotography #insects #urbandwildlife

Keeping an eye out, that'a'way #canada #crow #signs #sign #pointing #sky #nature #urbandwildlife

A coyote at sunrise on grass facing the camera with ears perked

Two coyotes at sunrise on grass. One facing the camera and one, further in the background, facing to the right of the camera. Both with perked ears.

A coyote at sunrise on grass facing the camera with head lowered slightly.

While watching the sunrise in AZ, a few coyotes walked over the hill. These are substantially larger than the coyotes I see in NC.

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