Shortly after taking this picture many years ago, CBS Sunday Morning highlighted a wetland featuring these wonderful singers. Click the image and you will link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To return to this web site simply click your browser BACK button.
The red-wing blackbird is a common critter in Nebraska wetlands. He is indeed a wonderful addition to our biosphere. Click the image and you will link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To return to this web site simply click your browser BACK button.
Taken south of the Platte River on the Alda Road. A great chance to see the big birds feeding and taking flight. Ah, it is wonderful to live so close to the Platte and the Rainwater Basin. Click the image and you will link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To return to this web site simply click your browser BACK button.
Meadowlark
Eastern and Western species. This is Western Meadowlark photographed in south-central South Dakota along the Missouri River. Click the image and you will link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To return to this web site simply click your browser BACK button.
Eastern and Western species. This is Western Meadowlark photographed in south-central South Dakota along the Missouri River. Click the image and you will link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. To return to this web site simply click your browser BACK button.
The Northern Cardinal is one beauty that inhabits our backyard. I had good luck to watch a male grab a cicada for lunch. The most phenomenal action was the way he captured it. The cicada I found in our watering can. I placed the critter on our plant stand in the backyard to dry it's wings and this began the phenomenal action.
After a few minutes of drying the insect headed for cover and there was Big Red. He dove for the cicada, but missed. As the cicada hid in the flowerbed, Red sat on the fence with his head tilted, listening. He dove to a spot in the garden near a tall wild indigo plant. Alas, he could not find it so he again perched on the fence, listening for the cicada.
He dove into the flower when, and where he heard it. Then rose up, and with a fury, wing beat the plant. Amazing. The cicada fled the dense hiding area and that was the fatal mistake. Big Red: wins. Cicada: loses. The sad thing about this episode, I did not have my camera handy!
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After a few minutes of drying the insect headed for cover and there was Big Red. He dove for the cicada, but missed. As the cicada hid in the flowerbed, Red sat on the fence with his head tilted, listening. He dove to a spot in the garden near a tall wild indigo plant. Alas, he could not find it so he again perched on the fence, listening for the cicada.
He dove into the flower when, and where he heard it. Then rose up, and with a fury, wing beat the plant. Amazing. The cicada fled the dense hiding area and that was the fatal mistake. Big Red: wins. Cicada: loses. The sad thing about this episode, I did not have my camera handy!
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Goldfinch atop our white fir, waiting for a port to open on one of four Droll Yankee feeders.
This year we placed a new feeder pole near the window and what a gorgeous show. The feeders filled with the goldfinches until mid-May.
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This year we placed a new feeder pole near the window and what a gorgeous show. The feeders filled with the goldfinches until mid-May.
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Indigo bunting appeared at our disability feeder mostly frequented by the squirrels. This is the only time seen since we moved to this house in 2005.
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Chickadee in the burning bush and as seen from the kitchen window. This year we are in a townhouse and have the feeders placed in a small entryway garden. Wonderful show when the squirrels exit the feeders. To my delight, I spotted four of the little buzz-bombs whiling away time in the bush.
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Pintail on a seasonal wetland in the Rainwater Basin.
To the right is a pair of Pintail. I took this many years past when working on the vanishing isolated wetlands in Nebraska. My favorite of the migratory waterfowl because of the elegance.
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