Here I will collect my bird photos...
Urban California Quail
Red Crossbill (male and female)
Townsend’s Solitaire
White-Crowned Sparrow (adult and immature)
American Pipit
Canyon Wren
American Dipper along Swift Creek WY
Reed or Marsh Wren? Gray's Lake ID
Killdeer Clark's Reservoir MT
American Pipit
Wilson's Snipe
Bald Eagle
Ring-billed Gull
Belted Kingfisher (male)
Here are some recent photos I took in Pine Stree Woods. The days were not great, overcast and gray. Still there is a bit of fall color and it was fun to play with some black and white. These were taken by an old camera that I have resurrected the
Soft sodden air of the twilit forest Snap of fallen drops, formed of mist and pines Rain-blackened trunks parade down-slope Pale bleached-yellow of fern Like spirits of their brown bracken brothers Wraiths of mist hang and sweep through the rain-dark trees Flash of white, a pause, ghostly gray The deer
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