A showy duck - green head and mullet, red eye, orange bill, white mutton chops, russet chest, tan sides and white belly (whew!) Does a tail stand ind still water by rearing up and flapping his wings.
Got out this morning in between wind storms to find this male Wood Duck showing off for the ladies. #BirdsOfBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
Small gray bird stand on a rock in a fast moving stream with its toes just in the water. The water is reflecting some light, but the image is overall grey. The bird has a very short tail and slightly upturned black beak.
#greyday #birdsofFrontRange #BirdOfTheDay #dipper #smallbirdsaturday
American Dipper loves low light.
Small borb perches on a twig. The bird is tannish on the chest, gray wings and back, black head with a white mask running from its tiny black beak to the back of its neck.
#BirdoftheDay #TwigsAreUs #Chickadee
#BirdsofFrontRange 🌿
This little borb was flitting along the creek last month, but graciously paused on a twig long enough for me to get *one* good shot.
A medium-small gray hawk with a russet chest and legs, white-ish face, striped under wings and thin yellow legs crouches over a furry something beneath it. The hawks wings are half spread to keep other hunters from snatching its prize.
#wingsopennotflying #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #coopershawk
A Coopers Hawk hoods over a baby bunny it just pounced on.
Focus is on a Great Horned Owl perched on a branch in the foreground. An American Robin is on a branch in the background.
A Great Horned Owl perched on a branch in the foreground. Focus is on an American Robin on a branch in the background.
The Great Horned Owl turns its head to see the American Robin behind it.
And now there is just the Great Horned Owl perched on a branch in the foreground -- the Robin took the hint and flew off.
#BirdOfTheDay #MixedPairs #BirdsOfFrontRange #Owls
#GreatHornedOwl #AmericanRobin
A Great Horned Owl and an American Robin ... until there is just the Great Horned Owl.
April 1, 2025
A male duck paddling in calm water. The body of the duck is two tones of brown, the wings are dark. The head is mostly black, with green swooping up from its forhead across its crown to end in a mullet at the neck. White muttonchop markings, white bill with orange nares and bright red eyes complete the incredible coloration.
#plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange #birdsofBluesky
A beautiful day - I needed to get outside. Am glad I did - Wood Duck at a local pond.
A female/juvenile broadtailed hummingbird is pushing its beak into a closed red tubular flower on a stalk of Agastache.
#BirdOfTheDay #PerfectLighting #birdsofFrontRange #hummingbird
Last summer was an awesome year for photographing hummingbirds!
Female/juvenile broadtailed hummingbird feeding on Agastache plant.
Raptor with grey head and back, eyebrow streak, and thick dark stripes on reddish chest perches ob a branch. It's brown eye looks at the viewer.
#BirdsOfBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #merlin
Was going through my photos from around the neighborhood from the last few days found one I didn't recognize. Merlin app says Merlin falcon! If so, lifer!
And rare for this time of year.
#WideOpenWings #BirdOfTheDay #hummingbird #BirdsOfFrontRange #TongueOutThursday
A female Broadtailed Hummingbird was darting around some ornamental yucca plants. It came straight at me, then saw me and ... Air brakes deployed! It stopped literally just a few inches from my lens.
From July 2025.
A small bird with brown back, pinkish-orange sides and chest, white belly, gray head, pinkish beak, and dark eyes, stands on the surface of snow.
#borb #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat
Juncos are the borb-iest.
Pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco from 2022 12 22. You know, back when we had snow.
A very black American Crow sits on a medium branch. It is puffed up and cawing at my dogs beneath the tree (not shown).
#BirdOfTheDay #corvid #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling 🌿
This crows feathers were ruffled as he was cawing his displeasure at my dogs.
What is it about dogs and corvids mouthing off to each other? Both too smart for their own good, I suspect.
A small gray bird stands belly deep in a rushing stream. It has plunged its head into the water, causing droplets to spray as a wave breaks over it.
#BirdOfTheDay #waterdroplets #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat
American dipper showing off its borbiness while it plunges its head into a rushing stream.
A small round birb sits in the snow. It is grey with a white chest and belly. It has a dusting of snow on its little pinkish beak.
#BirdOfTheDay #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange There aren't many bird I find #cute, but this little birby Slate-colored Junco, aka "snowbird," does it for me.
From 12/22. You know, back when we had snow.
Head shot of a bird with alternating brown and white stripes from the top of his head to his chin. His small sharply pointed beak is covered with bits of purple berry skins.
#collectingfood #BirdOfTheDay #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
Song Sparrow with berry mash all over his beak. Can birds lick their beaks clean, or is this a reason why they wipe them on things?
A cedar waxwing hangs upside-down from a slender branch surrounded by fruit, as it stretches for a crabapple.
#birds&berries #birdsofFrontRange #BirdOfTheDay
Cedar Waxwing going for the perfect dried crabapple!
Two big Bald Eagles perch in a tree above the viewer. On looks majestically into the distance. The other looks at the viewer with lunch in mind.
#BirdOfTheDay #blackandwhite sort of. #birdsofFrontRange #iNat
Met a man over from England on the trail today, here for a funeral but birding to relieve the stress. He was very excited when we showed him a pair of Bald Eagles. Glad we could lift his spirits a bit.
Small grey bird in profile on a shrub who's buds are just about to open. The bird has a white head wth stripes on its crown, across its eye and down from its black bill to its chest.
#BirdOfTheDay #Poecile #iNat #birdsofFrontRange
Mountain Chickadee from foothills west of Denver, CO.
May 2014
Duck with brown mottled feathers has her orangish bill in the water. The water is moving so fast it has created a bow wave that is washing over her face up to her eyes.
A brown duck fliats in fast moving water. Delicate brown patterning covers this duck's head and chest. His black bill has a fringe along its lower edge, reminiscent of a whale's baleen, and used for the same purpose.
#BirdOfTheDay #ducks #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
Female gadwall strains for food in a fast moving creek, while the male shows off the comb on his bill that lets them filter out goodies in the water. Did not know that about dabbler ducks before these photos.😉
In the upper left corner is a solitary berry amid several small shrub branches. An American Robin is crouching profile on a small branch in the lower right corner of the picture. It wants that berry and it's figuring out how best to get it.
#favoriteofthemonth #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange
American Robin about to go for the last berry on the shrub.
Yellowish bird with yellow belly and back and black wings stare at the viewer. It is perched on the top of a drying sunflower head.
#eyecontact #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
From September 2025 Female/juvenile American Goldfinch on sunflower head.
The Front Range of Colorado didn't get hit with the deep cold and heavy snow that the eastern part of the country did this week. But we did get ice bells. And birds. #iNat #BirdsofFrontRange #Owls #ducks #dipper
A medium sized black bird with white spots on its wings and a red breast and vivid red eyes has thrown its head back and opened its beak wide in song. It is perched at the top of a juniper tree.
#birdoftheday #singing #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #birdsofBluesky #iNat
Spotted towhee. May 2009.
Gray duck with a brown head and neck, and black bill, glares at the viewer with a brilliant yellow eye.
#birds #iNat #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
Female Common Goldeneye.
Did not know that ducks could have a resting bitch face...
In early morning light, a medium sized hawk with a dark head, russet chest with white bars on chest and underside of wings launches from a wooden slat fence. It's wings are fully extended over its head and its feet are fully extended towards the fence.
#BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat
Coopers Hawk taking off from backyard fence.
From May 2025.
A blue-grey bird with white stripes around her neck, and across her chest and belly. A rust-red band splits telhe chest an belly patches. Her beak is stout, and as lang as her head.
#LongBeaks #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #birdsofBluesky
Female kingfisher from 2024.
She generously held still long enough for me to take her picture.
A tiny hummingbird twists its wings as it darts among agastache stems. The agastache has lots of red flowers on the stems for the hummer to chose from.
#BirdInFlight #birdoftheday #birdsofFrontRange
Calliope Hummingbird flies between branches of agastache.
From August 2025.
A small bird hangs onto a dried seed stalk in early morning light. The bird has a white underside, light russet sides. The dark wings have white bars on them. In her black beak is a seed she has just separated from its covering.
#BirdOfTheDay #natural #birdsofFrontRange
Female American Goldfinch eating seeds from a dried penstamen (?) Stalk.
A red-tailed hawk is just launching out of a Russian-olive tree. It's wings are not fully spread and it's feet are extended under it from that first big leap. The hawk has it's head turned a little to the side of the direction in which it is leaping, and it is completely focused on something out of the frame. Some small creature is about to have a bad day.
#caughtinmotion #birdoftheday #birdsofFrontRange #hawks
I love taking photos of hawks as they launch - they have so much potential energy and inherent menace that you know the launch is the beginning of a story.
Two ducks - A brown female and showy black, white and brown with a bright yellow eye male - paddle slowly in calm water. The low-angle light creates shadows.
#birdoftheday #goodlight #iNat #birdsofFrontRange
Male and female hooded merganses in late afternoon light.
