Bullock’s Oriole Male all photos by Larry Jordan
Last weekend I returned to the site of our Audubon Chapter picnic at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area’s Tower House, where we had seen a Bullock’s Oriole nest with the parents making trips to an fro. I thought it would make an appropriate Father’s Day post. Here is Dad, apparently attempting to coax the youngster out of the nest. [continue reading…]
Red-tailed Hawk Chicks all photos by Larry Jordan
These Red-tailed Hawk chicks known as eyasses (pronounced eye-ess-ess) are now about six weeks old. They should begin short training flights very soon. You can see by this photo that they are fully feathered, with the youngest one having some down still on its head. [continue reading…]
Juvenile Bald Eagle photo by Larry Jordan
How would you like to win a “Journey to Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve?” Well, that is just one prize in the Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds In Focus!
New York, NY – Audubon magazine is launching the 2009 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Birds in Focus, created to celebrate the beauty and diversity of birdlife through the art of photography, and to honor the exceptional work of talented professional, amateur and youth photographers from all over the U.S. [continue reading…]
Lesser Goldfinch Female Feeding Chicks In The Nest photos by Larry Jordan
I found this Lesser Goldfinch female building her nest about three weeks ago while checking one of my bluebird nest boxes. She was busily building this beautiful and sturdy nest of grass, twigs and plant fiber. This nest held up (as did she) through two raging thunderstorms and downpours over the last two weeks. An amazing feat of engineering. [continue reading…]
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