WINTER with the BIRDS...

Hawk

"I am the Hawk. Share in the freedom I feel when I fly..."-John Denver

Finches

"Birds witness the most beautiful mornings in this world..." 

                        -Mehmet Murat Idan

Flicker suet duel

"No bird soars too high if he soars with its own wings..." -William Blake

winter Viburnum

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” -Edith Sitwell

Finch

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark..."

 -Rabindranath Tagore
                                                    

"Frost grows on the window glass, forming patterns of lovely translucent geometry...

"Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition...

"Now it can build castles, and cities, and whole ice continents with your breath's vapour...

"In a few blinks you can see the winter fairies moving in...

Hunting mode

But first, you hear the crackle of their wings..." -Vera Nazarian

Grackle

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind..." -John Geddes

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.”- E.B.White

"Now is the time of fresh starts. This is the season that makes everything new..." -Vivian Swift

Towhee

"In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted..." 

-Mark Doty

Stellar Jays

"Flight – that’s the word. They beat in the air like wings, as if reluctant ever to touch the ground. I have observed them coming down, on a very cold day, near its end when the sky above me was still blue, in flakes great and wide as the palm of my hand. They were like immense moths winging down in the twilight, making the silence about me visible.”

                                                                           -Howard O'Hagan

Photographs 2026