Red-winged Blackbird — Image by kenne
Blackbird up in tree
With a red patch on your wing
Stopping for a moment.
— kenne
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Red-winged Blackbird Leave a comment
National Bird Day 1 comment
Costa’s Hummingbird — Image by kenne
National Bird Day
Small in size, often overlooked
Beautiful to watch.
— kenne
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December 2011 3 comments
Raven In Snow Covered Pine On Mt. Lemmon (12/15/2011) — Image by kenne
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Verdin Collecting Fungus 7 comments
Verdin Collecting Fungus On A European Fan Palm — Image by kenne
What is she doing?
What is she doing out there
With all that fungus?
— kenne
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Curve-billed Thrasher 4 comments
Curve-billed Thrasher — Image by kenne
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Black-throated Sparrow At Patio Feeder 2 comments
Black-throated Sparrow At Patio Feeder Image by kenne
“If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
― The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
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Copper’s Hawk In Black & White 6 comments
Copper’s Hawk In Black & White
“Love is a decision – not an emotion!”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Pileated Woodpecker Near Lake Houston 3 comments
Pileated Woodpecker in East End Park on Lake Houston (October 7, 2023)– Image by kenne
Hugh and I were walking through the thick woods of East End Park when we heard picking from the woods and noticed
the hole high up in one of the trees. Figuring by the size of the hold, it might be a pileated woodpecker,
so we turned on our Merlin app and guess what? They stuck their head out from the hole.
— kenne
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Sea Gull In Flight (Puerto Peñasco, Mexico) Image by kenne
“You have the freedom to be yourself,
your true self, here and now,
and nothing can stand in your way”
— Richard Bach
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Brown Pelican In Flight Leave a comment
Brown Pelican In Flight — Image by kenne
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It’s A Roadrunner Day Leave a comment
Roadrunner — Image by kenne
Just another hot day
when roadrunners move
across and down the street
jumping up on our patio wall
in route to the water fountain —
it’s a roadrunner day.
— kenne
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Our Patio Dove Has Finally Flown Away 1 comment
Our Patio Dove Has Flown — Image by kenne
It’s been a two weeks since this dove flew into our patio door. She was stunned, so I approached her to see if she could still fly.
She walked away but didn’t fly. I later realized that she may have injured her left wing. Since then, I have been making sure
she has seeds and water. She instinctively protects herself by staying in a prickly pear cactus; when leaving the cactus,
she only walks around the edge of the patio wall.
In recent days she has increased her attempts to fly. Yesterday she was getting two feet off the ground.
The patio wall varies in height from four to seven feet, so she knew where to practice getting up on the wall.
I didn’t see fly over the wall, I only know she has left the patio.
— kenne
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Ash-Throated Flycatcher (Tubac Arizona) — Image by kenne
walking with birders
in the thick brush
alone Rio Santa Cruze
some with binoculars
others with cameras
in the August heat
— kenne
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Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk On A Hot Summer Day 4 comments
The summer heat helps bring a lot of birds to our patio water fountain, including this juvenile cooper’s hawk.
He/she has spent much time in the olive tree, which looks down on the fountain and bird feeders.
They haven’t learned yet that other birds know they are there, so waiting will get he/she nowhere.
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Hutton’s Vireo 3 comments
Hutton’s Vireo — Images by kenne
I have, in the past misidentified the Hutton’s Vireo with the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, which is easy to do.
Both are common to southeast Arizona, and both are small birds with very similar markings and coloring.
