Apr
11
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
my new camera making me love it even more, this was taken through the window of the hide, from across the lake, tracking while in flight, on a very overcast day
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Jan
10
I received a new camera for Christmas! My parents got me a Nikon D5100. I also got strep throat for Christmas! bleh But that left me with time to play with the camera and watch Mom’s bird feeder.
I had to look up to see if goldfinches stayed around through the winter. I guess I just never recognized them in their duller winter feathers.
Aug
19
This week’s theme is: Sojourn
hummingbird’s sojourn
hovering at a feeder
migration’s long flight
photo by heart-felt-robot, found on flickr
Jul
14
cuckoo’s first-born chick
clearing the nest of rivals
murderous hatchling
Inspired by the theme at
Jul
11
Photo offering for both:
and 
This is the bird I was tracking at Misery Bay in Presque Isle State Park. I, my birding partner, and friends at the National Aviary have all identified it as a trumpeter swan. When I submitted the observation in to eBird, they identified it as a tundra swan. Either way, a lifer for me!
Jul
6
Another meme I’ve seen for which I’ve not found a center link site.
Dec
7
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
Taken from the southwest shore of Lake Erie, near Port Clinton, Ohio
December 3, 2011
Normally I wouldn’t show this low res of a photograph to anyone. But, on full digital zoom out into the lake, I thought my little Fujifilm FinePix did pretty well. Well enough for me to identify a new life bird for me!
Nov
8
Week 12 of the Poetry Picnic over at Gooseberry Garden brings us Feathers, Fidelity, Figment, and Fables
faith
flows
feathered
fantasies
flickeriing figments
featuring fabulous fables
forestalling fidelity’s forbidden frustrations
photo by cenz, found on flickr
This “F” flavored fibonacci poem joins my “F” haiku and my “F” abhanga.
Sep
12
Publishing a couple hours early for
The Height of Haiku Challenge, Day 13 – Prompt #71 – Liberty
nine eleven fears
try to suffocate but still
Liberty flies free
Liberty, one of the bald eagles at the National Aviary. Sadly, all bald eagles in AZA zoos are there because they cannot be released back into the wild, usually due to injuries.
Aug
10
Another image taken back in June from the shore of Lake Ontario. We pulled over for the huge rookery of gulls and cormorants before noticing these guys hanging out in the trees above. I counted maybe two dozen herons hiding in the leaves.
Posted to World Bird Wednesday
Aug
9
They learn early to squawk. Taken on the shore of Lake Ontario back in June, coming home from the Tim Minchin concert.
May
18
Bald Eagle at the National Aviary. Last Thursday, I spent the day there, from several hours before they opened to a bit after closing.
May
2
one of the photos I took at the photography workshop at the Pittsburgh Zoo this past Saturday
Apr
4
watching cameras
broadcasting the miracle
peregrines nesting
The National Aviary’s FalconCam at the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning
Aug
22
Trying out the larger size layout, the bald eagles didn’t seem to be much larger than the sidebar stream!
I absolutely adore boat-billed herons. And the rainstorm in the wetlands room is my favorite time at the National Aviary.
Aug
22
Bald Eagles
Originally uploaded by otterblossom
We’ll see how this works, I just linked my wordpress and my flickr accounts. Now I should be able to spotlight some of the photographs I’m most proud of, more than the little sidebar stream.
Here are the bald eagles at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, from my post birthday trip.
