🦅 • fea·ther·wea·ther
birds?
birds ….
biiirds
BIIIIIIRDS
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new to the scene, american redstarts make a strong entrance this season with bold colors and courting displays
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this is a swamp
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massive and perched high in the trees, a red-tailed hawk looks down at me and thinks "can i eat that?"
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a shy blue jay gives me the cold shoulder as it desperately seeks some privacy
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my favorite, the ever curious bluegray gnatcatcher lands close by to say hello
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she's gotta go get stuff done
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those things being: to pose for me on another branch and to look at me with a curious headcock
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a chestnut sided warbler warbles in the bush, not looking to different from a bush itself
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not a bird
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an eastern wood pewee, regal and fat, looking for bugs to eat
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a colorful mourning warbler trots along the ground looking for food
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a red bellied woodpecker, caught red-handed with seeds in its teeth
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a red-eyed vireo sits in the afternoon shade
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curious about me being curious about it, it flies right overhead to get a closer look and say hello
a rose breasted grosbeak enjoying the sun
images were taken on a handheld nikon d3400 with an fx AF-S nikkor 4.5/5.6 70-300mm lens and identified with merlin bird id. information from allaboutbirds.org and wikipedia.