Black and White Warbler

Black and White Warbler Perched quite upright, looking prim and proper

Black and White Warbler And then off up the branch with a few hops.

Black and White Warbler Gravity is no problem as it spirals up and down in any direction.

European Starling Non-native to the Americas and considered a pest, the Starling has a striking look.

Gray Catbird In between complaining about things, the Catbird pauses for a berry.

Gray Catbird Then it's ready to start all over by giving an eye to the perceived threat.

Red Admiral Butterfly A bright, fluttering splash of color as it moves from plant to plant.

Chestnut-sided Warbler One of many migrants, like most warblers, it seldom sits still.

American Redstart The mature male of the species is far easier to identify, even if it moves about very quickly.

American Redstart The Redstart likes to frequently flare its tail feathers out as it flitters about.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak A juvenile on the way to becoming a fully colored adult.

Cedar Waxwing Breast feathers ruffled a bit by the breeze, a Waxwing shows off bright tail feathers.

Dark-eyed Junco The first ones of the fall are almost always a surprise because usually it feels way too early.

Dark-eyed Junco A few at first, then many, and they start their endless squabbling and flaring of white tail feathers.

Cooper's Hawk Intent as always on where the next prey might lurk, waiting to be taken.

Northern Flicker During the summer they seem more solitary, but in the fall sometimes half a dozen clump together.

Northern Flicker One witnesses the magnificent tail flare of another.

Scarlet Tanager The female of the species looks very unlike the brilliant red of the male.

© Michael Bailey All Rights Reserved; Not for reproduction.
No photograph from this blog may be reproduced or used
in any form or by any means whatsover.

Juvenile Birds

Gray Catbird juvenile Where the upper and lower mandibles of the bill join is the gape, which is more flexible and brighter in a juvenle. Just visible here, along with the still-short tail.an>

Gray Catbird An adult with the darker bill and a fully formed long tail

Cedar Waxwing juvenile Almost an adult, but with stripes on its breast, and still following its parents around.

Cedar Waxwing A parent perched on the same branch as a juvenile.

Cedar Waxwing Not as social as normally. two adults decide to have some kind of dust-up.

Cedar Waxwing Sitting on a freshly made nest, incubating eggs at Owen Park.

Chipping Sparrow juvenile Hopping around on its own in the grass in search of food. No parents in sight.

House Finch juvenile Still sporting one or two of the distinctive little feather tufts on the top of its head.

Song Sparrow juvenile Finer stripes along the breast and side, with the distinctive black smear just forming in the center.

Green Heron juvenile First the long look of this shape-shifter, crest up and still retaining a few of the head pin feathers.

Green Heron juvenile Then the short look of the same individual.

Green Heron juvenile A hop to another metal pole and a medium-length look as something below has become really interesting.

Green Heron With an occasional call, it perched high up in a dead tree at Owen Park, sharing space with a variety of birds.

Osprey The small golden carp, or goldfish, of Stricker's Pond make for a good meal for herons and Ospreys alike.

Great Blue Heron Taking a time-out from the hunt, a Great Blue Heron climbs through the air up to a favorite dead tree.

Great Blue Heron Even a tiny retaining pond at Owen Park has the huge goldfish of the carp family. They're everywhere.

Indigo Bunting female You wouldn't know this was the same species as the male.

Indigo Bunting male The more familiar brilliant color of the male.

American Goldfinch For late nesters like these, when thistle seeds form, August is a prime month. It can be both food and nest material.

Baltimore Oriole Though mating and nesting season have wound down for them, they still find the energy for a territorial dispute.

Blue Jay Noisy and highly visible, they elusively appear and disappear in the blink of an eye.

Northern Flicker With a wing flared out for a stretch, all the yellow shafts of the feathers show.

Red-bellied Woodpecker A male sitting briefly on a branch before zipping off, trailing chatters, to do the same elsewhere.

© Michael Bailey All Rights Reserved; Not for reproduction.
No photograph from this blog may be reproduced or used
in any form or by any means whatsover.

Great Egret

Great Egret Lingering briefly during migration, carefully scratching an itch.

Great Egret Morning preening requiring a great deal of neck flexibility.

Great Egret After all the grooming, time to hunt for a fish on two in the pond.

Black-crowned Night Heron A very temporary migrant resting up in between flights.

Black-crowned Night Heron Early morning it will come out and preen, hunt for food, then retire back into the trees.

Ring-billed Gull Always a raucous visitor with its screeching calls.

Osprey A casual fly over to scan for fish in Stricker's Pond below.

Osprey Perched at another time, but it usually gets one of the large goldfish or carp to eat.

Eastern Kingbird Alert as always, ready to fight their own kind and others.

Great Blue Heron The pre-historic look. The bill has a touch of blood from an earlier meal.

Great Blue Heron Wood Duck houses make for great perches when not actively hunting.

American Robin Still nesting, though well into August, with a worm on the way to feed a young one or two.

American Goldfinch Two chased each other back and forth in a leisurely manner.

American Goldfinch It looked a lot more like play than anything else.

Wood Duck A late season youngster.

Northern Flicker With a dramatic wing flare the sometimes hidden, different colors show clearly.

Double-crested Commorant A juvenile coming in for a landing.

Double-crested Commorant Showing its Loch Ness Monster, chin up pose.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak A juvenile with quite a variety of colors.

Cedar Waxwing An always beautiful and dramatic bird that for some reason also seems to be gentle.

Sedge Wren A classic pose with tail cranked up.

© Michael Bailey All Rights Reserved; Not for reproduction.
No photograph from this blog may be reproduced or used
in any form or by any means whatsover.