Category Archives: Birds

Blog posts that describe behaviors or contain nature photographs of birds.

The Cleanup Crew

By Jim | Published June 3, 2020

Today’s post features what I call “the dirty, cleanup bird” … the Black Vulture. Vultures are very interesting birds. They are one of our best “cleanup” birds, constantly scavenging road kill. To look at these birds, you would think they come out of the prehistoric era … the hairless, wrinkled faces were built for scavenging […]

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Time for Chicks

By Jim | Published May 18, 2020

Today’s post features a pair of Great Egrets at the Venice Rookery (Florida) this February. While photographing Great Blue Herons that were actively nesting, several pairs of Great Egrets were busy building their nests, bringing in sticks and branches. Looking over to one pair, they were engaged in mating: This was the only “active nest” […]

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Photo-bombed By an Ibis

By Jim | Published May 15, 2020

Today’s post comes from my recent Florida trip, and was captured at the Venice Rookery. While photographing an active Great Blue Heron nest, I was shooting lots and lots of images, hoping to capture “that special moment”. Well, as it was early in the morning, the roosting White Ibises (“Ibi”?) were beginning to leave the […]

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Feed Me!

By Jim | Published May 12, 2020

Today’s post comes from my February trip to Florida. One of my favorite shooting spots is the Venice Rookery. Today I’m featuring an active Great Blue Heron nest, located at the rookery. Today’s images were taken early on, during my 2-day photo shoot here. In this nest, there are 3 “cute” nestlings: In upcoming posts, […]

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Happy Mother’s Day 2020!

By Jim | Published May 10, 2020

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Mothers out there! As if on cue, our little Canada Goose family (mom, pop, 6 goslings) visited us yesterday evening while we were working in our gardens by the dock, giving me a great opportunity for some Mother’s Day images! Enjoy, and have a great Mother’s day! HAPPY […]

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And Away We Go!

By Jim | Published May 8, 2020

Today’s post is the last of the series on the Canada Goose nesting, that occurred on our boat dock at the Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) this spring. If you missed any of the other nesting posts, you can find them here: “Growing Goslings “ “How to Transplant a Gosling “ “Gosling Olympics “ Immediately […]

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Gosling Olympics

By Jim | Published May 6, 2020

Today’s post is the third of 4 posts about the brood of Canada Goose goslings that recently were hatched on our Missouri Ozarks dock. In the last post (“How to Transplant a Gosling”), I featured images of six little Canada Goose goslings as they left their nest … in one of our large flower pots […]

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How to Transplant a Gosling

By Jim | Published April 30, 2020

Today’s post is a followup to the previous post (“Growing Goslings” , in case you missed it). “Transplanting” is the process of moving from one location to another. How do the goslings relocate? Well, I was blessed with the opportunity to see how the little ones moved from the dock flower pot to the dock […]

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Growing Goslings

By Jim | Published April 26, 2020

How do you grow goslings? Well, here at the Lake of the Ozarks we use the “flower pot method”! Today’s post covers about a month-long process of monitoring and photographing an active Canada Goose nest on our dock at the lake. An absolutely wonderful experience to be able to follow this goose family (mom and […]

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Fun Friday: A Wise Little Bird

By Jim | Published April 24, 2020

Today’s “Fun Friday” post comes from Cape Coral, Florida, during my February trip around multiple sites in Florida. The Burrowing Owl is an endangered and protected species in the community of Cape Coral. This little owl was spotted in a residential area, just down the road from one of my good Florida friends: Note the […]

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