
Still wet from a dive that missed the fish, the osprey is hunting again.

Still wet from a dive that missed the fish, the osprey is hunting again.

osprey at the start of his fishing dive

Is not the look of the turkey vulture sad and haunting? She who helps clean our world?

This Canada goose is patiently brooding her eggs. Note the soft nesting materials where they spill out from under her mid-section.

Bright orange-red eyering marks the killdeer / Charadrius vociferus.
Vociferus in the scientific name can be defined as “crying out noisily” and this bird does so with its loud frequent killdeee, kildeee call.

the wood duck drake floated past – an enameled brooch on the lake