Still Life With Birder

My friend Barry Dies supplied a couple of photos of Rafferty Reservoir from this afternoon. It's been raining in the area for two days...

Very early yesterday morning, this handsome male showed up in my back yard.  It's my first Rose-breasted Grosbeak ( Pheucticus ludovici...

Water continues to pour into Rafferty from Boundary Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) have just arrived. There's much mor...

I'm not even going to say much about this finely feathered dude.  (click on pic for bigger and clearer) He was gorgeous in the mornin...

A Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura ), sans tail, has been in the area for a week or so.  I know little about their moults - how many per ye...

All right, I'm tired of all the 'disaster porn' with the local flooding, the April 30th snow storm, etc etc - no doubt, I will b...

Divide County is the most NW county in the state of North Dakota.  It is directly south of where I live.  So Divide and the adjacent countie...

Awww, two more neighbouring spruce trees came down - smaller ones.  Across the side alley from me (my garage).  I truly loved these two tree...

A nasty, nasty storm invaded our space for the past 24 hours and counting.  A lot of wet, heavy snow and very high wind.  Power has been out...

What is better than fresh-caught crab for lunch? Nothing, as far as this little one is concerned It's a mink - a wet mink; officia...