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    Bird potraits, and some four-leggeds, as a mental health break

    By we are stardust on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 11:36am |

    During this rather grim political period, I thought I would offer a brief interlude from my corner the natural world.   I put these and some others up on Flickr.com, but I have no idea how you access them, unless it's by using my name.

    Most of the more colorful birds make stopovers here on their way to and from Central America and Canada.  They knock me out in terms of their colors, design, songs, variety, and different behaviors. 

    I hope you enjoy them, and they brighten your day.


    The photos look a bit blurry; I even tried some tiffs, but they weren't any better.

    In order they are: evening grosbeak, male
    Lewis's woodpecker
    sharp-shinned hawk
    black-headed grosbeak
    cedar waxwing
    western tanager, immature male
    mourning dove
    western tanager, breeding male
    black-headed grosbeak, male
    Steller's jay
    rufous hummingbird
    big buck resting
    red-shafted flicker,
    male triplet fawns (no, really)
    Bullock's oriole, male
    Gracie the racoon