Jake (Wandering Crane Photography)

Between a male and female? Males also have red feathers along their beaks.

Correction, she

Long time no post. Events in life can sometimes be hectic. But it's nice to get a reminder of the good things.

Here is a picture of a Pileated Woodpecker. I knew he was around, but he finally made an appearance where I was able to get his picture.

#birds #backyard 🪶 #photography #motivation

Downy woodpecker

It's been a while since I've been able to get photos, but I do have a lot of shots still to share. This time a Downy woodpecker.

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True, I meant it more as a "here have another!"

White-breasted Nuthatch

Just another White-breasted Nuthatch

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Dark-eyed Junco

After a while of seeing them this winter, I finally got a photo of one of the Dark-eyed Juncos that visit my feeders.

#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #darkeyedjunco #winter

If you see this quote with a bridge from your gallery

The Luís Bridge in Porto, Portugal from the Duoro River

#travel #photography #portugal

Belted Kingfisher

A snowy morning looking for shorebirds. I heard a unique bird in the distance and took his picture. Didn't realize he had a fish.

#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #snow #kingfisher

Looking back through my catalog of images since I started Wandering Crane Photography, I found images I took that I have forgotten. They serve to inspire and show me how far I have come.

This is in Kenya during my first trip there, and the place Wandering Crane was born.
#photography #astro #travel

Downy Woodpecker

A little late of a post, but the meaning is there all the same. Happy New Year to all.

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White-breasted Nuthatch

Northern Cardinal

Blue jay

White-breasted Nuthatch

To finish off the year, here's more of my visitors this Christmas.

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Tufted Titmouse

Black-capped Chickadee

White-throated Sparrow

The fog and rain didn't stop frequent visits to my feeders. Here are a few of them:
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
White-throated Sparrow
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #birding #rain

White-breasted Nuthatch

At a distance it's easy for me to mistake this Nuthatch as a Chickadee, but when you see the way he moves it quickly becomes clear. Each bird I try to nickname. My Nuthatches are now dubbed Peter Quill. Because his beak looks like the quill of a pen

#birds 🪶 #wildlife #birding #wildlifephotography

Tufted Titmouse

Another addition to my backyard visitors. This guy is a regular visitor to my feeders. I caught him enjoying a sunflower seed on a cold afternoon.

Tufted Titmouse
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Thank you. When I started, all my birding was at a destination. Now that I own my own property it has provided me the chance to bring them to me.

Blue jay

Yellow-bellied Sap sucker

When life doesn't allow you to travel, just look in your own backyard. Sometimes I am surprised by what I see.

I have received more birds in my backyard since refilling the feeders. Here are two of the visitors I had. Yellow-bellied Sap Sucker and Bluejay

#birds 🪶 #photography #backyard #birding

Northern Fiscal in Nyahururu, Kenya

A regular sighting on the Farm. This Northern Fiscal and many others survey the field.

#birds 🪶 #wildlifephotography #Kenya #birding #photography #travel

American Robin

There is something magical when you capture even the most common birds as the snow falls.

I captured this American Robin, when I visited Moraine Park in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #Colorado #RockyMountains

Little Bee-eaters

Little Bee-eaters we captured in Nairobi National Park in Kenya back in 2023.

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Hunter's Cisticola

Took this shot of a Hunter's Cisticola, in Nyahururu, Kenya In 2023.

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Taita Fiscal

During a Safari in Nairobi National Park, I spotted a Taita Fiscal. He struck a pose for me.

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I want to go back. It's been a while since I was there.

A good way for me to differentiate it is the beak. The beak on an Indigo Bunting is short and conical in shape and can have a mix of colors. The Mountain Bluebird has a thin, straight bill that is entirely black in color.

Indigo Buntings have different beaks that are short and conical. Very different from the mountain Bluebird that has a thin, straight bill.

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird

To follow up the Mountain Bluebird I saw in Colorado, here is an Eastern Bluebird I saw in Litchfield, CT at the White Memorial Conservation center.

#birds 🪶 #photography #wildlife 📍Litchfield, CT

*Moraine Park within the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado

*Moraine Park within the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado

Later the same year, we visited Alberta, Canada, and because the names were similar I must have mixed them up.

Among the other Sunbirds I have seen, I have only seen this one twice during my time in Kenya. However I still haven't captured one this close yet. Nice shot.

A small black bird with a long decurved bill looks at the camera from its perch. Patches of bright iridescent red, green and blue shimmer.

An iridescently awesome male Scarlet-chested Sunbird…

📍Kigali, Rwanda.

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