Linda Barnia King

3/1/2026 7 Great Egrets & 1 Great Blue Heron spent time almost in our backyard…
been watching 4 heron for 2 weeks…could be a nest…egrets are new…Yakima Valley
#birds #egrets #herons #ornithology
#birdphotography #Washingtonstate #WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdoftheDay
#fourormore

Sun rising on Mt. Adams as seen from the lower Yakima Valley, the second highest mountain in Washington’s region of the Cascade Range…elevation 12,276ft…3/1/2026…
#mountainMonday #mountains #PNW
#CascadeMountains #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape #WashingtonState #WashingtonisBeautiful

Migrating Canada Geese making a rest stop at the neighborhood gravel pit pond, Yakima Valley, Washington state…
#birdoftheday #fourormore #geese
#birds #BirdsoftheWorld #birdlife
#washingtonstate #birdphotography
#water #reflection #photography #WestCoastPhotography #PNW

Gold Stars also known as Spring Gold, tiny member of sunflower family, blooming 2/27/2026 on the exterior grounds Fort Simcoe State Park, near White Swan, WA…
#stunday #WashingtonisBeautiful #PNW
#wildflowers #bloomscrolling #photo
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#WashingtonState #SundayYellow

Nashville Warble…nests in Canada and area of some northern states including the Wenas Lake area of the Yakima Valley…migrates to Mexico…
#SmallBirdSaturday #birds #ornithology
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#warblers #birdsintheirelement #birdlife
#WestCoastPhotography #photography

I’ve felt the same way…fog can make some cool photo ops but I always miss that mountain…

Birding back roads 2/27/2026 on the Yakima Nation’s Reservation watching the change of seasons taking place…very green field is winter wheat…Mt. Adams in background…
#greenSat #rural #farming #backroads
#landscape #ruralscenes #nature
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#mountains #naturephotography

Bald Eagle flying along Toppenish Creek in the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge where if had just startled a flock of ducks into flight…
#WideOpenWings #birds #raptors
#birdphotography #BirdoftheDay
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsSeenin2026
#WestCoastPhotography #photo
#wildlifephotography

Much as I love all flowers I can’t wait until I’ll be able to photograph my own…spring can’t come too soon, though at my age I shouldn’t be wishing time would fly…
#floralFriday #flowers #bouquets
#flowerphotography #dailyflowers
#bloomscrolling #photography
#onlybeautifulthings #photo

Roses and lilies to warm your screens as we work through the last days of February…
#yellowThurs #roses #lilies #flowers
#bloomscrolling #blossoms #bouquets
#flowerphotography #dailyflowers

One of my late father’s photos from WWII…France somewhere near Paris…
we owe them and thousands like them so very much…it’s high time ALL Americans remember that and behave like the grateful nation we should forever be…
#HumansofBlueSky

Swainson’s Hawk screaming defensively at me as I sat in my truck…migration expands from Alaska to South America…diet includes small mammals, rodents and large insects…found nesting near Harrah, WA…
#birds #raptors #BirdoftheDay #hawks
#powerpose #BirdoftheWorld #PNW #photography #birdphotography

AI says this is “Tradescant”, a David Austin English shrub rose though says it could also be 4 other similar roses…strong ‘Old Rose’ fragrance…Yakima Area Arboretum Rose Garden…
#roseWednesday #roses #flowers
#bloomscrolling #dailyflowers #PNW
#flowerphotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography

Now I need to get back there to sniff the leaves…no problem as I stop quite often…

Some call them Sparrow Hawks but this is actually an American Kestrel, the smallest of the falcon family…very common…

Thanks…favorite place and time of the year to walk with my camera…

Great Blue Heron hunting the water lily pond at Sportsman State Park, Yakima, Wa…it’s been a favorite hangout for several years…
#BirdoftheDay #BirdsintheirElement #PNW
#herons #bluebirds #birds #ornithology
#BirdsoftheWorld #photography #WestCoastPhotography #audubon

American Sycamore, known for its gnarled, lumpy, branched trunk and massive size…found on the office grounds of Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #nature
#WestCoastPhotography #photography

A gray, rainy day here in eastern Washington state and much worse weather for people in other parts of the U.S. calls for flowers to lift spirits…
#flowers #bouquets #bloomscrolling
#dailyflowers #flowerfeed #photography
#blossoms #flowerphotography

Canada Goose about to step into flight from a pipe in a landscape pond on a very cloudy day…Yakima, WA…
#monoMonday #monochrome #bnw
#blackandwhitephotography
#birds #geese #BirdsbeingBirds
#photography#WestCoastPhotography

It’s got a wicked eye…

Male Lazuli Bunting at Fort Simcoe State Park…the female is much plainer and very elusive…she builds and tends nests in dense brush…summer northwestern US, winter in Mexico…
#stunday #birds #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdoftheDay #PNW
#birdphotography #birding #birdlife

Chawton Cottage Climbing Rose, named for British novelist Jane Austen’s home which is now a museum honoring her…from landscaping in downtown Yakima, Washington…
#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling
#Stunday #dailyflowers #Blossoms
#flowerphotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography

Red-tailed Hawk…adult…giving me a quizzical look while perched on one leg on a very cold day…Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…
#BirdoftheDay #OneLeg #birds #hawks
#raptors #BirdsoftheWorld #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #birdwatching
#ornithology #birding

I planted 150 new bulbs last fall…thought maybe too shallow when they started poking through but my older bulbs were doing the same thing so it’s just this crazy weather…waiting on snow right now…

Smokey and Daffodils from spring 2025, south central eastern Washington…this year they’ve insisted on coming up way too early…added more mulch but that’s not stopped them…
#caturday #flowers #photography
#daffodils #flowerphotography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #cats
#bloomscrolling

Immature Rufous Hummingbird…very aggressive, and territorial…famous for long migration—nesting as far north as Alaska and wintering in Mexico…Yakima, WA…
#smallbirdSaturday #hummingbirds
#Birds #ornithology #littlebirds
#birdphotography #birdlife #birding
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdoftheDay

Florists have so many interesting, and unique flower colors and shapes available to design with…
#flowers #bouquets #bloomscrolling #flowerphotography #dailyflowers
#blossoms #roses #photography

American Coots, awkward fliers, members of the rail family, run across the water on lobed feet to take off a Yakima Greenway pond, Union Gap, WA…
#birds #BirdoftheDay #WingsOverWater
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdPhotography
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#Naturephotography #BirdsofBlueSky

Looks like a duck to me…