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Stellar!

oops, sorry. I thought that info was displayed when clicking on the image but it looks like the portrait versions aren't working like the landscape versions. I've gone back and added the names of the birds in each post, thanks!

Male Goldfinch

Female Redwing Blackbird Female Goldfinch

Junco

Blue Jay

A study of content finches in the backyard today. They must have read the weather forecast.

A couple of backyard visitors this morning.

Spotted an Osprey today.

A Beatles fan, apparently.

Those dark areas look like they experienced some type of extreme heating, which of course can cause rock to crack. I've seen this phenomenon at multiple ufo landing sites.

Through the windshield darkly.

Female Goldfinch backyard.

Male Goldfinch in the backyard, mating plumage.

Torpedo in the water! Beaver head on.

Some type of Wren (?) breaks out in song.

I definitely would not have worn those socks with those shoes.

Clone out those overhead wires and you got yourself a genuine flying saucer there.

Seagull keeps a wary eye on a Merlin Falcon while the Falcon considers "How would I get that in the car?"

George Costanza?

Will you be up for parole soon?

Yup, that looks like a fox hole. In fact, it looks like another entrance/exit toward the left of your frame closer to the water. All of the fox dens I've run across seem to have multiple means of egress. I think it's in the fox building code.

Anti-Inflation hose

Normally she is pretty good about that, but she's coming out of a rough patch right now and needs to be given a little more patience. She had a severe hip problem and her diabetes caused her to go blind. She just had both issues surgically repaired. Amazingly, and I had no idea this was...

Coco bays (sings) like a beagle. Of course. two minutes of singing can be so exhausting!

Two of The Sallister (Sally)

It certainly gives one pause as to whether to enter. I suppose if Vice were to bust the place you could always claim you were there for the pizza.

I picked up a Sigma 105 2.8 macro yesterday and a cheap (great value) ring flash. I haven't shot macro or flash in years so it took a while to arrange the tootsie rolls so the wrappers didn't reflect the flash and blow out the image. I found the best way to do that was to eat them. These are the...

Oh, just give me some wind in my hair and a branch to perch on!

An immature Baldie deploys it's ice traction cleats for a early spring landing.

Goldfinch in the backyard this morning.

I think it's a female redhead. The ringnecks have a defined white stripe behind the black tip on the bill.

A Bald Eagle near Frankfort, Michigan Mourning Dove in the backyard today.

That shot evokes memories of the scene in Hitchcock's "The Birds" when the crows gathered outside the schoolhouse before attacking the children as they fled, screaming, down the street.

Your pigeons are our Mourning Doves here in Michigan.

We have thousands of Lesser Yellowlegs here. I think I've yet to see a Greater Yellowlegs. After seeing this one it appears it would be hard to get the two confused, yet I've been told it can be difficult to tell them apart. That said, I don't think I've seen a Greater shot of a Greater...

This female Mallard was quacking up a storm. I noticed the male paddling away and I got the impression he'd heard it all before. This Red Bellied Woodpecker was so fast, it was removing debris from inside the tree, tossing over it's shoulder and had it's head aimed back at the hole before the...

This, of course, is the elusive Tiger Cardinal, known for hiding amongst the shadows of the pines in the backyard, giving her it's namesake stripes. Here, a Tufted Tit takes up camp in the same pines... ...while a Downy looks on.

Pretty slow at the pond today... ..."just a bunch of mallards." I think mallards have to be the Rodney Dangerfield of ducks. They get no respect, no respect at all. Despite their brilliant coloring and friendly demeanor, "just a bunch of mallards" seems to be a common response theme when...

Nice! I've not seen one of those before.

Thank you sir! There were about 50 more of these critters back in the woods beyond the reaches of a clear shot through the trees.

Thank you. Luck won the moment!

Yup, Northern Flickers for sure.

Someone needs to put a traffic signal here.