Christine Pence

Scaly-munia are starving at 3 pm.
#birds
#scalymunia

Good morning
#birds
#housefinch
#birdfy

under the bench a guitar with a buy me sign pointing toward...who knows what exactly.

Laguna Beach Sawdust Festival 2025
#sawdustfestival2025
#lagunabeachcalifornia
#streetphotography

small yellow/orange bird sitting on a branch in the rain

scarlet rumped tanager, female in the rain
#birds
#costarica

Aren't they cute!
#birds
#housefinch
#morning
#breakfast

big, blue butterfly with wings outstretched on a green leaf

The blue morpho butterfly in Costa Rica...looking a bit ragged.

#insects
#butterfly
#bluemorpho
#bluemorph
#costarica

red eyed tree frog on a leaf with the nictitating membrane slightly raised.

The beautiful nictitating membrane of the red-eyed tree frog, protecting its eyes from drying out.

#amphibians
#redeyedtreefrog
#nictitatingmembrane
#costarica

a big bird with wings spread sitting on a branch in the middle of a river.

The anhinga cooling off in the Tarcoles River, Costa Rica.
#birds
#anhinga
#costarica
#tarcolesriver

red and green and yellow and blue colors in the red green macaw in flight in Costa Rica

The beautiful red and green macaw of Costa Rica.

#birds
#macaw
#costarica

two colorful, blue-green brown headed parrots on a post

The brown hooded parrot of Costa Rica
#birds
#costarica
#brownhoodedparrot

avocet in breeding colors in water

Happy Mother's Day

#birds
#avocet
#mothersday

baby house finch begging to be fed while sitting on the birdfeeder

male house finch beginning to feed baby house while sitting on the feeder

male house finch places seed in baby house finch's open beak which sitting on the bird feeder.

Caught on the Birdfy webcam this morning....baby female house finch begging for food, male parent feeding baby from the feeder.
#birds
#housefinch
#birdfy
#feeding

white horse feet off the ground trotting toward home

last of the exercises at the end of the day...

#horse
#whitehorse
#racehorse
#horseexercise

Ground flowers

Cactus and poppies.

Spring morning under cloudy skies and drizzle

#flowers
#Spring
#morningwalk

female redwing blackbird

mallard ducks in a puddle

American Avocet in breeding colors feeding in the local pond

Happy Earth Day from our local wildlife refuge...thankful we still have these places for nature.
#Earthday2025
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#SoCal

red-necked pheasant shaking it out for his mate

HE IS RISEN! Even the red-necked pheasant noticed.

#birds
#redneckedpheasant
#Easter

Easter by the roadside...waiting on the hour.

#Easter
#cross
#purple
#HolyWeek

female mallard duck in the pond stretching her neck up toward the sky.

It's one of those lazy, hot, end of day moments with the female mallard duck stretching her neck before flying off.

#ducks
#mallard
#female
#birds

Peregrine falcon in its scrape looking sideways at the webcam.

World wildlife day finds the peregrine falcon waiting in its scrape for the other falcon to arrive for a little courting....atop the County Courthouse in Elizabeth, NJ USA
#birds
#peregrinefalcon
#courting

colorful chukar out for a stroll

the colorful chukar strolled through the ghosts in the Calico Ghost Town, California
#birds
#chukar

red tailed hawk perched on a branch at the end of day

red tailed hawk enjoying the late afternoon sun while surveying the fields for food
#birds
#redtailedhawk
#endofday

female northern harrier flying over the ponds in almost dark

blackbirds flushed from the pond in the evening.

female northern harrier buzzes the ponds, making the blackbirds flush...into the evening.
#birds
#northernharrier
#blackbirds

colorful female northern kestrel, a small falcon, posing on a branch in the waning sun

song sparrow, small sparrow, posing on the branches end of day

end of day in the wildlife refuge with the female northern kestrel and the song sparrow...lovely soft light.
#birds
#femalenorthernkestrel
#northernkestrel
#songsparrow
#waninglight
#endofday

Merline on a branch eating a bird.

Cooper's Hawk sitting on the birdbath with head turned around to face the camera.

Raptors everywhere these days....in the wildlife refuge with the Merlin and in the backyard at the birdbath with the Cooper's Hawk
#birds
#raptors
#merlin
#cooper'shawk
#wildlife

multicolored wood duck floating in water

female bufflehead floating in water after stretching her wings.

A male wood duck and a female bufflehead duck float peacefully by my camera.
#duck
#ducks
#woodduck
#bufflehead

northern shoveler ducks foraging together

northern shovelers out foraging...nothing like togetherness in shoveling.
#birds
#northernshoveler

whimbrel snoozing near a closed oyster

whimbrel and oyster
#birds
#whimbrel
#shorebird

three brown pelicans sitting on the beach rocks, preening and watching

The three amigos at the beach...
#birds
#Californiabrownpelicans
#pelicans

Forster's tern preening while sitting on the beach rocks.

Forster's tern preening
#birds
#forsterstern

California brown pelican flying over the ocean and seaweed covered rocks.

California brown pelican over rough waters
#birds
#brownpelican