Black-capped Chickadee or the Red-breasted Nuthatch. Sounded more like the latter, but looks similar to a Black-capped chickadee. Perhaps someday I’ll know birds. Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mmm lens The Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) have black caps, white cheeks, and black throats and are gray above with buff sides fading to white undersides. Males, females, and [...]
Archive of posts tagged bird
Blue and bold
Young Steller’s Jay seems intrepid and curious. The Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the Blue Jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. This bird is named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller who discovered them [...]
A memory card a day
The perturbing case of the walking robin The author of Make Your Photos Speak recommends taking 24-100 photos a day. But she’s studied and practiced photography for years. I try to trigger curiousity and fill a small memory card daily with photos and images. I can do this without fear of failure. No. I fear [...]