Red Wing Blackbird

The female is nothing like the male. He sports his red chevron on his wing. I like them and I like their songs. They are familiar sounds to any boy who has walked along a country road.

Feeding Grackles

Female-Red-bellied Woodpecker

980-redbelliedwoodpeckerfemale_6432-copy, a photo by oldmanlincoln2012 on Flickr.

Stylized in Photoshop CS5. I think you could do something like this in Photoshop Elements. Not that you would want to, but I am just saying...

A Medieval Monk—Vision of Flight.

A Medieval Monk's Vision of Flight., a photo by oldmanlincoln2012 on Flickr.

The medieval monk had no conception of an airplane flying but knew all about flying dragons. When I made this drawing a number of years ago, the idea was to show what he saw and what we see. What was common to him is still uncommon to us. They also saw birds but flying machines had to be dragons. I am showing this on My Birds Blog as a reminder of how "time" changes our appearances.

Brown Thrasher

They do have a long straight tail. I tried to tell someone about their tail and at the time was not able to find my photo. Got it today and posted it for February 3, 2012. Hope you have nice weather where you live. It has been very nice here in Ohio, where we live, the past two or three days.

Hummingbird love hosta nectar

I have a lot of Hosta plants and all are planted somewhere in shaded areas. The hummingbirds seem to like certain plants better than others. I do know that when the hummers seem to disappear, that they are probably on the other side of the house drinking nectar from plants located there,

Northern Mockingbird

Coopers Hawk

980-coopershawk-IMG_6145, a photo by oldmanlincoln2012 on Flickr.

Young Coopers Hawk is threatening a squirrel. It is quite a bluff and the hawk makes it work. The squirrel took a detour on the ground and walked past the hawk on the fence.

Snow Flurries, Ruffled Feathers

Cold, we got cold, and we got rain, and we got snow, and we ain't got no sunshine. It is enough to ruffle your feathers.

Chipping Sparrow Raising Cowbird

Chipping Sparrow Raising Cowbird, a photo by oldmanlincoln2012 on Flickr.

Worth a 1000 Words

Starlings Perched on Thermostat, a photo by oldmanlincoln2012 on Flickr.



It is cold and windy here. Had warmed up a bit today but it is now going back down and the birds are a bit on the frosty side. I took this photo several years ago. It is the only time the birds posed like this on the thermometer just outside the window.

Starlings Perch Close, Snowing

Four starling perch close together on plant hook during snow storm.

Baltimore Oriole

Early in the spring, when the leaves are out and there is a warm breeze blowing, I sometimes see these bright birds. The Baltimore Oriole in all his glory and perched on a dowel rod. I cut a fresh orange in half, slip it onto the dowel rod, as shown and the one end of the rod slides into a hole drilled in the post. They love it and eat, and slurp, from both until there is nothing left but some pulp. The squirrels will even take a turn at eating the orange.

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Sharp-shinned hawk walking around my backyard and happened to see me watching him. He is a small bird but has a hearty appetite. He is beautiful and is immature. His eyes are yellow and he has splotches on this breast feathers instead of a regular pattern. If an adult, the eyes are red. I really like these birds and see them nearly every single day. I live in town and over the past decade have photographed over 5,000 Coopers Hawks and Sharp-shinned Hawks.

Birdfeeder

This is the kind of bird feeder that we use.