Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Today Was a Good Day for Birds

Today was a good day for seeing birds. This last late Winter snow seems to have brought them out. A lot of the seasonal migratories are coming back now; the salt marsh by Gooseneck Cove was full of the sound of Redwinged Blackbirds, and I saw an Eastern Towhee way back in the underbrush in Ballard Park. And of course the Black-Capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, Nuthatches, and Downy Woodpeckers are all over the place and really, really vocal and active. I got lots of pictures today, but these three are really the only ones that came out well enough to share - a Chickadee, a fat and sassy Robin (it had no fear of me at all, just flew up to that rock and tried to stare me down), and a Gray Catbird. All three were shot in Ballard Park.























© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger

5 comments:

  1. Oooh....LOVE that chickadee and love that catbird! He is puffed up! There is something to be said of the cold and snow. It does make birds look fab. (You're right. I was a kid in the 60s, and we did the Jinx thing too!).

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  2. Great shots spring is not far away.

    I see you have Eva Cassidy on your playlist. I have two of her CDs. It's a lost that she died so you.

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  3. love the randomness of the last shot. A fitting "end" to the post.

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