Chestnut-sided Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Fledgling Oriole

A fledgling Oriole outside the kitchen window brightens up this dark and rainy morning!

Summer Rain Storm

Fledgling Field Sparrow

I knew there was a nest of Field Sparrows out in the yard somewhere.  Today I came across the fledglings.  There were at least three little ones flitting around in the pine trees with their parents.

Potato Beetle Larva

Potato Beetle Larva on the leaf of a Milkweed Plant.  I was looking for Monarch Butterfly eggs but came across this guy instead.

Eastern Garter Snake

Common Yellowthroat Warbler

I came across a very curious and photogenic Common Yellowthroat this afternoon.

Mourning Warbler

Hooded Warbler

This is one of my favorite wood warblers but also one of the more difficult ones to get close enough to photograph.

Eastern Chipmunk

Happy Summer Solstice!

Black-billed Cuckoo

Chestnut-sided Warbler

A male Chestnut-sided Warbler in breeding plumage.

Canada Warbler

A male Canada Warbler with the morning sun filtering down on him through the green foliage.

To hear his song, click here.

Common Yellowthroat

Black-throated Green Warbler

Another good reason not to use chemicals on the lawn!

Our lawn is chemical free and has lots of so called "weeds" and happy healthy birds!

Female Purple Finch

Twelve-spotted Skimmer

Female Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly perched on a blade of grass.

Chipping Sparrow Drama

I found this very tiny fledgling Chipping Sparrow in the middle of a parking lot.  I picked it up and moved it into the grass so it wouldn't get hit by a car.  Before long, one of the parents showed up to attend to it and eventually moved it off into the bushes.

Kestrel with a Fledgling Robin

This Kestrel caught a fledgling Robin.  The part that got me was seeing and hearing one of the Robin's parents just a few feet away on the wire screaming alarm calls.

Limenitis arthemis

This brush-footed butterfly is more commonly known as a Red-spotted Purple.  

Eastern Meadowlark

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird

American Redstart

Pastel Sunset

Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet Tanager peeking out at me from behind the leaves.  Not the best shots, but it sure was fun watching him.  

Spider Pearls

Rain drops collecting on the strands of a spider web.

Sun Worshippers

After a rainy week, it was easy to find sun worshippers all over the place this morning!

Painted Turtles on a log enjoying the morning sun.

Yellow roses in my garden.

An Indigo Bunting singing his morning song from the telephone wire.

Eastern Chipmunk sunning itself on a tree stump.

White-tailed Buck (with new antlers starting to sprout) eating his breakfast in a field.

Purple Martin

Purple Martin with a silver band visible on its left leg.  When I enlarged the shot on my computer, the numbers 25 and 68 were visible on the band.

Waxwing Lovers

Cedar Waxwing courtship is seen in these photos with a male feeding the female an insect that he caught for her.

Green Heron

Green Heron on the hunt during a cool spring rain.

Valley Fog

Valley fog settling in this evening after a cool and rainy day.

Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey hen walking through the back yard.  She shows up a few times a day to clean up sunflower seeds under the bird feeders.  I expect to see her appear with little ones following behind her sometime soon.

Baltimore Oriole

Singing his little heart out on a sunny spring day!

The Tree on the Ridge

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."  ~  Martin Luther King Jr.