They could always get my goat.
A squirrel offers a helping paw.
The poultry I have raised in past.
Polish chickens.
I had to clip the feathers on the rooster's head so that he could see and not walk into the walls of the henhouse.
A peacock insisted on feather dusting the ground.
Guinea hens were supposed to eat ticks and scare rats away. We had guinea fowl, ticks and rats.
The potholes and prairies
Near Carrington, North Dakota.
Common black hawk
A common black hawk near Cottonwood, Arizona.
I thought it might have been the extremely rare (never seen even once) common black and blue hawk. It's said to be much clumsier than the common black hawk.
A red squirrel making a sandwich.
A leucistic robin.
Photo by Jack Madson.
What happens when a blue jay runs into a Cooper's hawk in a dark alley.
Photo by Ruth Searle.
Photos from here and there
Taken by Greg and Terry Tellier.
An osprey.
Burroeing owl
Swell photos from a friend.
Four photographs taken by Bryce Gaudian of Hayward, Minnesota.
Sandhill crane pair with colt.
This red-winged blackbird is no fan of cranes.
Ma and Pa red-winged blackbird.
Ring-billed gull.
A feeder in my yard blooms in goldfinches
And lilacs provide an enchanting and accompanying scent.
Two of my favorite birds
A red-headed woodpecker
And a black-capped chickadee.
Leucistic dark-eyed junco
Photo taken by Carol Bertelson.
Violets are on the march.
When I was a boy, I transplanted violets to our yard. I babied them and worried about their survival. I need not have worried. They are thriving.
A flock filled with red-winged blackbirds and common grackles.
Photos taken by Bryce Gaudian of Hayward, Minnesota at his farm.
A robin is supposed to have three snows on its tail before it is truly spring.
But first, a common grackle flashes some color.
The tail of this robin has been putting in overtime.
The fox sparrow.
In charge of the henhouse.
A birdie with the yellow bill of spring.
