SNOW BIRDS...

"Winter perches like a bird. Wings tucked in so the soul is heard..." -Angie Wellan-Crosby

Grackle

"In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for..." -Rumi

                                         

"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, 

Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,

Finch

Yet knows its boughs more silent than before..." -Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stellar Jay                                                       Hum Hum Hum waits for a new nectar feeder....

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness..." -John Keats

Towhee

                                                                                                                         Varied Thrushes

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how to dance..." -e.e.cummings

Junco

"It is the life of the crystal, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter is full of it..." -John Burroughs

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness..." -John Steinbeck

"Fresh snowfall is the closest thing to silence you can see..." -Unknown

Rona, the cat from next door in his winter coat.

"Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear..." 

                                                         -G. Kotsiopoulos

Photographs 2026

 

BRAVE BIRDS.....

"God is in the small details: in the simplicity of a bird's song, in the serene dawn, or in the first autumn leaf falling..." - Animal wised

                                    "Hold onto dreams......." - Langston Hughes

Stellar Jays, hogging the birdbath...

"More beautiful than the song of birds are their flights. Not every song is of joy, but every flight is of freedom...." -Mario Quintana

      Finch sinking his head into his feathers, being brave against the rain...

(Brave Hum  Hum in the twilight)

"Better than the sound of silence, only the singing of birds....."

-Aerton Guimares

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and SINGS  when the dawn is still dark.." - R. Tagore

Juncos.... buried in the Katura Tree leaves, hiding from  the rain.............

Flicker pauses in a rat- a- tat- tat moment...

"My wish is to stay like this forever...to live peacefully in a corner of nature...." -Claude Monet

     "Look at the birds of the air..." - Matthew 6:26

Flicker eats and eats and eats eats....while a Towhee ( minus its tail) gets away ( and lives to tell the tale!) from the clutches  of  neighbourhood  cats. Towhee hops and flies and swings around the trees, giggling at the cats below...very brave...

"Soar on wings like eagles. Run and not grow weary....." -Isaiah 40:31

"Nature always wears the colour of the spirit...." -Emerson

"Birds were not designed just to be beautiful jewels of the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven." -Suzy Kassem

Stellar Jays gobbling as many 

seeds as they can......they do NOT like sharing...

"Be as the bird perched on a frail branch, she feels bending beneath her. Still she sings all the same, knowing she has wings...." -Victor Hugo

 "I wake up every morning, FREE as a bird.." - Ashley Cole

"Tomorrow the birds will sing.  Be brave. face LIFE.." - Charlie Chaplin

                                 (Another Towhee with its tail intact.......happy and brave.... )

Photographs 2024

FIRST DAY OF SPRING gone to the Birds.....

 "I heard a bird sing. A magical thing and sweet to remember..." 
                                        -Oliver Herford

 FIRST DAY OF SPRING and Spencer lounges on warm pavement.His eyes close in the stillness.Dreaming of birds.He hears them in his dreams.

Eagles call to each deep down in the forest. He can hear them. Way far off.

 And  Hummers Hum hum hum.....

 Flickers rat a tat tat. Noisy. Rat a tat tat on the house behind us.

 It's a perfect day. Quiet and  warm. Loons languish fleetingly on their rock in the bay.

 Cordelia, from the house behind, stretches in early morning sun. She keeps her distance from Spencer, snoozing below.

 And Hummer hum hum humms......

 Towhee has his first bath of the day. He will take many. Swish swish he goes. She swishes  water out of the bath. 

 And at last robins have returned. Ripping worms from the early warm earth. Spencer likes to watch them.But right now he's too sleepy.

 And Hummer hum hum hummmmmms.....

 Finch stays out of reach in the sun. Away from cats.

 And Hummer hum hum hummms......

Juncos keep an eye  on everything around them.

 And the Hummers hum hum hummmm....

 Spencer gets more sleepy. The morning is getting toasty. This first day has gone to the birds.   And the Hummer buzzes him to sleep......

(And I will get to plant new roses....Gold Medal, Olympiad, Gene Boerner, Chicago Peace, Rio Samba, Queen Elizabeth, Dolly Parton)
Photographs 2019