Through January 2016

The combination of a full-time job, winter weather and shorter daylight hours and spending every weekend working on our Svensen house has really cut into the time I can spend enjoying photographing the wonders of Nature.  In spite of these conflicting complications I have the following photos to offer.

Black-Capped Chickadees

Varied Thrush

Great Blue Heron

Evening Grosbeak

Caspian Tern ...

... with a fish dinner.

Black-Throated Gray Warbler

Downy Woodpecker

Spot-Sided Towhee

Immature Spot-Sided Towhees

Bank Swallow

Bank Swallow  (Barn Swallow in background)

Barn Swallow

Common Yellowthroat

American Goldfinch

Hutton's Vireo

Song Sparrow

Dark-Eyed Junco

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Brown Creeper

Immature Cedar Waxwings

Red-Winged Blackbird

European Collared Dove

Band-Tailed Pigeons

Northern Flicker

 

Anna's Hummingbird

Stellar's Jays

Red-Breasted Nuthatch

Golden-Crowned Kinglet

Canada Geese

American Wigeon

Pied-Billed Grebe

Redhead Duck

Hooded Mergansers on our Svensen pond

Female Hooded Merganser eating a pond goldfish

And, eating something else, perhaps some other kind of small fish?  Any guesses?

Kestral

Peregrin Falcon

Cooper's Hawk

Immature Bald Eagle

Elk

Blacktail (Mule) Deer