birdweekly – Wandering Dawgs

Backyard Bees, Butterflies and Birds

July 15, 2021Posted in Birds, Butterflies, Nature, PhotographyTagged Bee, birdweekly, garden, Gulf Fritillary, hummingbird, Northern Cardinal, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, summer, summer garden18 Comments

We’ve had lots of activity in our backyard these first two weeks of July. Bees and Butterflies are frequent visitors to the butterfly garden.

Ruby Throated Hummingbirds and Northern Cardinals are two of the birds we see every summer around our back yard. Snow Egrets are frequent summer visitors to the salt water creek. Roseate Spoonbills first started coming to our area a few years ago. I’ve seen them two years in a row now so hopefully they will keep returning each summer.

Shared with Lisa’s Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds Common in your area this time of year

Birds with long tail feathers

June 21, 2021June 23, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged birdweekly, Long Tail Feathers, Peacock17 Comments

Sarah at Travel with Me is our guest host for the Bird Weekly Challenge of Long Tail Feathers is. For this challenge I chose a selection of Peacock images.

Thanks to Sarah for her Bird Weekly Challenge #52: Birds long tail feathers

Birds with stripes, spots or freckles

June 16, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged birds with stripes freckles spots, birdweekly, House Finch, Limpkin, NeNe10 Comments

Our Bird Weekly challenge this week is to show birds with stripes, spots or freckles.

Thanks to Lisa for her Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds with stripes, spots or freckles

More than one Bird Species in a Photo

June 8, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged birdweekly, more than one bird species, Roseate Spoonbill, Sand Hill Crane, Whooping Crane, wood stork19 Comments

Our Bird Weekly challenge this week is to show more than one bird species in a photo. The photos at the top of the page and this next photo were taken in the spring near Goose Island State Park in Texas. The Whooping Cranes and Sand Hill Cranes were in a farmer’s field every morning along with ducks and other bird species.

We wandered around Everglades National Park several times and enjoyed seeing the many bird species there.

Tri Colored Heron and Roseatte Spoonbill at Mrazek Pond 2012.

Spoonbill and Egret at Mrazek Pond, Everglades National Park 2012

At Mrazek Pond, Everglades National Park 2012

Closer to home, I often see Wood Storks sharing the same space with Egrets, Herons or Ibises. This image is one of my favorites of a Wood Stork with an Egret perched on the same tree branch.

Thanks to Lisa for her Bird Weekly Challenge: More than one Bird Species in a photo

Birds Using Selective Color

June 3, 2021June 6, 2021Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged birdweekly, Selective Color15 Comments

Our Bird Weekly challenge this week is to use selective color with most of the photo being monochrome, black and white or sepia tone. The challenge for me was to learn how to achieve this effect. It took a little practice but I finally came up with two images I liked.

Above is a male Painted Bunting and below is a Purple Gallinule.