Terri Milton 🇨🇦

So flighty and hard to photograph! Nice pic.

A white-breasted nuthatch holding a seed in its beak pointing downward on the trunk of a tree. There are small branches and blue sky in the background.

First bird down the trunk,
nuthatch dives headfirst to earth;
seeing paths most miss.
~Justin Farley, Haiku
#naturephotography
📷Terri Milton

@wajali.bsky.social A 🇨🇦 fan here. Love Go Back and Domestic Crusaders. You and your 800 kids are welcome here in beautiful Nova Scotia! 😀This amazing Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative, AL) interview aired on CBC today. What a conversation you would have on The Left Hook. tinyurl.com/2f8kzcbx

A female deer looking at the camera from a field of dry goldenrod.

White
cobwebs, the grass
leaning where deer
have looked for apples.
~Denise Levertov, The Breathing
#naturephotography

There seemed to be a brief moment of either suppressing laughter or suppressing the urge to get up and run. Good job keeping composure, Mr. Carney.

A tree beside a brook with lush grass on its banks. The tree is reflected in the water. In the distance are fields and hills.

A brook meanders through a lush green field with hills in the distance.

A white-tailed deer sniffs the breeze in a field edged by large trees.

Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush
Not far off in the oak and hazel brush, Unseen
~Edward Thomas, The Brook
📷Terri Milton #naturephotography

A small warbler with yellow crown, rusty streaked sides and white belly sits on a branch surrounded by leaves

A small warbler with yellow crown, rusty streaked sides and white belly sits on a branch surrounded by leaves

In a month or so, when they reach the size of
bumblebees they'll fly to Costa Rica without a map.
~Jim Harrison, Warbler
📷 Terri Milton, Chestnut sided warbler #naturephotography

A small blackheaded gull walks on top of seaweed along a shoreline

Here, where the gulls speak of everything I am not, the tall grasses not yet tall, the tide out and in repose, a hint of ocean floor offering passage, seaweed torn by time, drowned without the sea
~Howard Altmann, The Gulls
📷 Terri Milton, Little Gull #naturephotography

A black and white warbler with an insect in its beak, pointing its beak downward on a branch. There are blurry green leaves in the background.

Thy leaves possess the season in their turn,
And in their time thy warblers rise on wing
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Progress of Spring
📷 Terri Milton, Black and White Warbler #naturephotography

Closeup of green inflated heart shaped rockweed bladders, attached to a rock on a rocky ocean shore at low tide.

her spirit yearns in twists and turns entwined in rockweed tangles
~Terry O'Leary, Unsettled Sea
📷 Terri Milton

A monarch butterfly viewed from the side sitting on a purple clover. There is grass, blurry, in the background

gossamer wings
of four inch span
so fragile and
yet so strong
~John Beharry, Monarch Butterfly
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography

I know....😭 I had such a crush on Malcolm-Jamal as Theo, and more recently also loved him in The Resident. How is it I didn't know he was also a Grammy winning musician...it's all so sad. Gone far too soon.

A seagull flies overhead with bright blue sky in the background

Yr wylan deg ar lanw, dioer,
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fal haul, dyrnfol heli
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Yr Wylan

Gracing the tide-warmth, this seagull,
The snow-semblanced, moon-matcher,
The sun-shard and sea-gauntlet
Glyn Jones trans., The Seagull
📷 Terri Milton

A closeup of a bumblebee feeding on a purple vetch flower

Rambling over sea side banks
Sending out tangled shoots
Like green tatting
~Barbara Joan Spring, Vetch
📷 Terri Milton #naturephotography

Daisies, wild roses and clover against a backdrop of ocean and land.

When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s edge, unseen, the salt ocean/lifts its form—chicory and daisies/tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
~William Carlos Williams, Flowers By the Sea
📷 Terri Milton

This is a breathtaking shot, Tim. Thanks for sharing it.

White and bright green dogwood berries on thick brown stems with dark green leaves in the background.

Don’t feel bad if you thought that such a tree was a figment of my imagination.
~Terry Johnson, Georgia DNR Wildlife Division, Out My Backdoor: Dogwood Berries Are a Wildlife Favorite
📷 Terri Milton, Red Osier Dogwood

Light pink blossoms and dark pink buds of a milkweed plant against a green leafy background.

There seems a mystery in thy work and place,
Which crowns thee with significance and grace
~Helen Hunt Jackson, Milkweed
📷 Terri Milton

A green grasshopper sits with hind legs bent on top of a green plant

Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
~Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
📷Terri Milton Spur-throated grasshopper

A peach and grey ringlet butterfly on a white yarrow plant

Oh how serene, oh how serene,
when pretty ringlets now are seen/in meadows where the snow has been/Among the tree fronds fresh and green
~A shacknofsky, Ringlet Butterfly
📷Terri Milton Common Ringlet aka Large Heath

Great shot. ❣️

A honey bee with yellow pollen on its legs, sipping on greenish white Sumac blossoms

To these sweet poets of the summer fields;
Me much delighting as I stroll along
~John Clare, Wild Bees
#naturephotography
📷Honey bee on Sumac, Terri Milton

...searches flights to Germany...😋

It sort of messes with my head but I bet it's delicious. Stay cool! 🫠

A green, yellow and black striped swallowtail larva climbs a dill stem.

Swallowtail butterfly larvae! There are 3 wandering on my dill plants. #naturephotography
📷 Terri Milton

A doe with large ears pointing toward the camera. In the background is the flank of another doe surrounded by plants.

Her face peered at me through tall grass
and we held our breath,
still-lives in dappled light
~Susan Auld, The Doe
📷Terri Milton

It's like a storybook. Enjoy this special family time. 😍

A cluster of yellow evening primrose blossoms and red buds in a hillside garden.

In a calm course of meditative years,
Oft have I hailed thee with serene delight;
~William Wordsworth, The Tuft of Primroses
📷 Terri Milton

A bumblebee sits on a crimson dianthus flower

A hum, a gentle pace,
Earth's resilience in place.
~Emily Verse, Bumblebee
📷 Terri Milton, Bumblebee on Dianthus

Hey!