Tag: bird photography
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Hummingbird and Columbine Flowers
I was delighted when I noticed a female Anna’s hummingbird sipping nectar from the columbine flowers that have spread throughout my yard this spring. I raced into the house to grab my camera, thinking there was no way I’d make it back in time to capture her in action. But she stuck around long enough…
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Perched Rufous Hummingbird
I captured this photograph of a male Rufous hummingbird perched on a branch as he was resting after a long migration from Mexico to his spring and summer home on the west coast of Canada. This handsome hummer allowed me to sit quite close to him and photograph him freely. In the background are the…
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Spotted Towhee
This photograph of a Towhee was taken when we used to live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. We often had towhees hanging out in the bushes that surrounded our house, or scrabbling around in the earth, doing their peculiar dance of bouncing back and forth to unearth some kind of tasty tidbit.…
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Inspirational Hummingbird
Today I sold a large print of this photograph of a rufous hummingbird in flight with colorful bokeh in the background and a quote by George Eliot: “It is never too late to be what you might have been”. George Eliot was the pen name of English Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans. She wrote under…
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Female Northern Flicker Siblings
Where we used to live we had a bird feeder, suet, and hummingbird feeders on our back deck so it was a very popular spot. Birds would often perch in the hemlock tree that grew right next to the deck. The pair of female northern flickers pictured above were sisters (by my best guess) who…