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

 

BIRD BRAINS....

Over the past 19 years (gasp, YES, we've been in Campbell River, B.C. for that long!) these are some of the birds visiting my back yard.  I have a great view of the mountains, the rainforest, valley, and these birds ...

Black headed Grosbeak

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings...:" -Claude Monet

Nest gathering

"By coming and going , a bird weaves is nest.." -Ashanti

Mr. and Mrs. Finch

"You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams..." 

                                                                                                                 -Haruki Murakami

White crowned Sparrow

"Tomorrow the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life..."

                         - Charlie Chaplin

Dove grey, always together...

"After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing..." -Erin Hunter

Stellar Jay

"Nothing but the silence of the tree, and then he is gone.." -Mary Oliver

Annas Hum Hum

"Powered by its own life and its own motivation..." -Abdul Kalam

Flicker

"The birds of heavens dwell in the trees.." - Psalm 104:12

Grackles "Cowbirds"

"If birds glide for long periods of time, then why can't I?"_Orville Wright

Pileated Woodpecker

"A woodpecker's drilling Echoes to the mountain clouds.."

                                                   -Dakotsu lida

Towhee

"I like the idea of taking off like a bird...." -Florence Welch

baby sparrow, I believe...

"Are you my mother?" -P.D. Eastman

Varied Thrush

"Every spring I hear the Thrush singing in the glowing woods...." - Mary Oliver

Robin red breast

"The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off." -F. Hodgson Burnett

American goldfinch

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."-Francis Beaumont

Cooper's Hawk

"Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, bright the hawk's flight on empty sky..." -Ursula K. LeGuin

                     FLY...............

Pine Siskins

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

Rufous Hum Hum

"I'm youth. I'm Joy..." - James M. Barrie


                                                          Eagles

“The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.” – Jack White

Photographs 2025 All photos taken in Campbell River, B.C.
 

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