Skywatch Friday

Two Buzzards (Turkey Vultures) doing some lazy circles.  The sky went from that clear blue to this:

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Sunday Stills Challenge: Bird Watching

This week’s challenge of Bird Watching couldn’t have been timed better, our humming birds returned, and I saw a couple buzzards circling, but of course I was nowhere near the camera!

One of my favorites from the February archives.

Red-tail Hawk across the canyon…

First humming bird of spring.

Checking out the feeder…

Sunday Stills Challenge – Birds

Thanks to the weather this week I had to raid the January archives for the challenge.  First it was non stop snow  – over a foot and a half – and then torrential rain that added up to at least 11 ½”, not exactly weather to be out snapping photos, unfortunately!

Cold Wren

Our pair of Redtail Hawks.

Sunday Stills Challange – Favorites of 2009

Wow, I think this is the hardest challenge Ed has ever given us, at least for me. Only two pictures!  I’ve taken so many photos during the year, and I have so many favorites!  Due to the virus the computer got on Christmas Eve, all the pictures taken before that were on disc, so I didn’t have time to go through all of them, so I finally settled on these two, both from late in the year.

This  probably one of my favorites of all the frosty barb wire that I’ve taken.  It’s the desktop background, too!

I love love love this one.  It’s one thing to get a really good picture of one hawk, but two, the other one swooping past, is pretty rare for a amateur photographer.

Sunday Stills Challenge – Fins, Feathers, and Fur

Interesting challenge, but fun!  I thought of this photo that I took back in July as soon as I read the title of the next challenge last Sunday.  This was in one the little islands in the road on the way to the meat processing place that we take our beef.

Blue Herons are supposed to be good luck, right?

Blue Merle fur…

Black Tri fur.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Stills Challenge

Ed over over at Sunday Stills was out of ideas for this week’s challenge, so he left it up to us to decide what to shoot.  I decided to try wild life…

  
“Lurking In the Dark”  This one just kind of happened by accident, the deer were too far off  for the flash to illuminate them…

Our resident tame squirrel.

Lucky shot! shutter speed is an amazing thing…

I guess he decided that I had gotten close enough; time to fly to a different tree.
New tree, but still within the range of my lens.

◊◊◊ Note:  These are all straight out of the camera, in case you were wondering.  All I did was crop them to make the pictures/files were smaller.

Tranquil Tuesday

This is one of the two Red-tail hawks that have been  hanging around lately.  While the cows were still out in the field, he/she would be waiting in the old dead cherry tree in the Fourteen acre field, just watching us and keeping a watchful eye on things.