Sunday, May 31, 2015

2015 March End (May 17 - May 30)

Here's a selection of recent photos.

I start off with my favorite photo of the whole bunch.  Occasionally you get a picture that seems deserving of being in a calendar or on the cover of a magazine.  I think this one is one of those.  Behold a singing, male, Lazuli Bunting.


Now back to our regular format.

Plants

Iris (moments before it had a big, fat Bumblebee on it).

Bugs 'n such (Invertebrates)

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

A beetle and a ???

Mating Dragonflies

I think this is a Lorquin's Admiral butterfly.

Tiger Swallowtail

Tiger Swallowtail

Tiger Swallowtail

Tiger Swallowtail

Amphibians

Bullfrog

Reptiles

Western Painted Turtle

Fish

Spawning Carp

Birds

Osprey

Osprey

Osprey

Osprey

Osprey

Osprey, carrying a fish

Osprey

Osprey

Turkey Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Spotted Sandpiper

A very late Snow Goose

Greater White-Fronted Goose

Canada Goose

Gadwall

Mallard duckling at Warp 2

Cinnamon Teal (male)

Cinnamon Teal (female)

Cinnamon Teal pair

Probable Blue-Winged Teal x Cinnamon Teal hybrid. 

Hooded Merganser female

Hooded Merganser female

Hooded Merganser female

Mourning Dove

Band Tailed Pigeon

Band Tailed Pigeons

Band Tailed Pigeons

American Bittern

American Bittern

American Bittern

Great Egret

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

American Robin

American Robin

Swainson's Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Spotted Towhee

Spotted Towhee

Brown Headed Cowbird

Brown Headed Cowbird

Young male Brewer's Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird, "running" through the grass.

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird, female

Red-Winged Blackbird, female

Red-Winged Blackbird, female

Red-Winged Blackbird, female

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Next is a sequence of photos of a pair of Red-Winged Blackbirds defending their nest from a Great Blue Heron.





























Another sequence, this time of a Red-Winged Blackbird female fishing Damselflies off the top of the water.








Success!

Tree Swallow

Tree Swallow

Tree Swallow

Tree Swallow (hot)

Tree Swallow, bringing food to a nest

Tree Swallow at nest

Tree Swallow, in nest feeding babies

Another nesting Tree Swallow

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Lazuli Bunting

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

Black Headed Grosbeak

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwings at nest

Cedar Waxwing, bringing a leaf for nest building.

Cedar Waxwing, bringing a leaf for nest building.

Some kind of Flycatcher (Empidonax sp?)

Bushtit

Bushtit

House Wren

House Wren

House Wren

Wilson's Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler (peekaboo)

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Song Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Some eaten Robin's eggs

Some eaten Robin's eggs

An abandoned egg, species unknown

Mammals

Western Gray Squirrel

Young Brush Rabbit

Nutria

Nutria Skull

Blacktail (Mule) Deer

 Sorry this is such a large entry, but May is a busy month.

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