Posts Tagged ‘bird’

Street photography, Oregon style

In Uncategorized on 3 April 2010 tagged bird, BW, nature, wildlife with no comments

photo: Wild turkeys along Bear Creek Road, 2010

Mexican cow

In Uncategorized on 10 March 2010 tagged bird, hand-coloring, landscape, nature with no comments

Here’s an oldie but goodie: a 2004 photo from a trip to San Blas, Mexico, where we encountered this cow gazing at us from a riverbank. That white blur is a cattle egret. Photo: Cow, hand colored black and white, 2004

Turkey inspiration

In Uncategorized on 14 February 2010 tagged bird, daily life, nature, Oregon, wildlife with no comments

The wild turkeys are back. Yesterday I looked out and saw nine of them foraging in the orchard. We ran them out last summer when our back porch became overrun by turkeys and turkey poop as they hung out, day in and day out, underneath our bird feeders. (A few days with a loop of [...]

Junco

In Uncategorized on 13 February 2010 tagged bird, daily life, nature, Oregon with no comments

This junco whacked itself semi conscious on the back window this afternoon. I brought it in to warm up for a moment, then photographed it with Noah and we sent it on its way. photo: Junco, 2010

Birding by bicycle

In Uncategorized on 10 January 2010 tagged bird, Canon, K20D, Pentax with no comments

I shot this photo today to go with an article my son is doing on motorless birding — people who keep lists of birds they’ve discovered within walking/biking distance of their homes. It was late on a cloudy, foggy winter afternoon and I was shooting with the Pentax K20D. While I love the camera, it [...]