• Backyard Birding

    A surprisingly confrontational sparrow. You can have a lot of fun with a long lens & a bag of birdseed. Most of the passerines I’ve photographed have been here, right outside my back window or here, on a feeder just above it. Those are a towhee & a red-breasted nuthatch, btw.

  • I just like the colours

    Here, too:

  • Common Bronzewing

    Dude is called the Common Bronzewing. I’m sure we’d be fonder of pigeons if this one were common around here. As it is, you want the bronzewing, head for Australia. Here’s his missus:

  • Western Scrub Jay

    Rare around here. Starlingly blue. Here’s another shot: