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Flickers are woodpeckers that use their long curved tongues to harvest their main food source of beetles and ants out of the ground. The eastern part of the US usually sees yellow-shafted flickers, the western part sees red-shafted. Males have black mustaches, females don't. Female in nest...

White-winged crossbills are irruptive finches that will move to the next good food source of which their beaks are specialized for getting hard to harvest seeds from conifer cones. Males are pink, females yellowish green.

Some of my favorites shots of them over the years

Bohemian Waxwings feasting on fermenting fruit. Sometimes they get so intoxicated that they just sit on the ground around people walking by.

This colorful little male was very curious about me photographing him while he flitted around grabbing insects in the bushes.

This great blue heron really put its brakes on when it decided to land on the rocks. Photographed at Tidal Falls in Hancock, Maine.

When 2 pileated woodpeckers flew across the bay, they came almost over my head as they passed over land.

During the 1st snow of the season this blue jay looked beautiful with the fire bush behind it.

Driving up along the coast after some awesome Clam Chowder in Pismo Beach I just had to stop in at Morro Bay as sunset was quickly approaching. My goal was to set up and shoot more timelapse, and as I was setting my D850 up for the timelapse I saw this seagull flying through the scene and I...

Another couple shots from my session with a belted kingfisher at the Edmonds Marsh on Saturday. The boardwalk along the side of the marsh allowed me to move at will and adjust the background, which I found beautiful in the autumn light. These crops frame the bird with background color.

This guy was hanging out in this dead tree the whole time my wife and I were at the Edmonds Marsh today. He'd go down to the water occasionally, but always returned here. I like the backlighting on his crest.

Hi all, So this year took me to Grand Teton and Yellowstone for most of the year and trips! This was my las trip to Grand Teton for fall color. There was a wildfire in the area which was making it hard for any kind of sunrise or sunset so towards the end of my trip I decided to focus on...

Went out for a walk today! Finally was able to sit with this guy for a bit before he flew off. cc welcome

I have been wanting to photograph these little blue birds. Last weekend I was waiting for the Thunderbird flyover and saw a few of these flying around. I have been back to this area several times since and haven't see them. There was another area I saw them too... I will have to check it out...

This is a Scrub Jay I believe. I know I feel like a bit of a scrub as I get my feet a little wetter shooting birds. :rolleyes: Thanks so much to Doug who took me over to his friend (and new member) Eric's house who has this really awesome birding setup in his backyard. I had so much for a...

These guys have been hanging out in my backyard this week. I shot these handheld through the window from my computer desk with a 100-400mm.

I stopped at my Son's place in New Mexico, so I only have time to edit 1 photo, so this is it. :) This is from Barr Lake in Colorado just east of Denver, I know it's not a Red Tailed Hawk but beyond that I am not sure at this moment. This was with the Tamron 150-600mm G2. It was handheld at...

Thanks to @Brian for telling me about Barr Lake in Colorado not too far from Denver. So off I went with my Daughter and 5 grandkids ranging from 18 months to 9 years old. Fortunately, the kids are pretty well trained in hiking, camping and used to my photography. But still I was conscious and...

Who knew that pigeons could look so cool? At least they looked cool to me flying around at Bolsa Chica Wetlands. It was hard because they tended to fly as a flock so it was hard to get compositions with them that I thought looked well, on top of their moving around all over the place pretty...