2/24: Coots

They stick together through thick and thin!

2/23: Carolina Wren

C‘mon, get up! You’re late, let’s get going!

2/22

“Yeah, well I don’t like you!” “Yeah, well I don’t like you either!”

2/21

How do they do it? The American Dipper makes its living splashing around streams looking for aquatic invertebrates. Bugs. Little bugs. Somehow they find enough of them, even when the water temperature is below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s amazing!

2/20

Mallards practicing for the Winter Olympics mixed doubles curling tournament.

2/19

Rumpie does his best to add a little color to a gray day.

2/18

“Mom! Mom! Can I? Can I?” “No, you may not!”

2/17

Shorty on the lookout.

2/16

When you’re small it’s easy—and important!—to be able to hide.

2/15

”Croissants? I thought you said you wanted Sunday morning cormorants.”

2/14

Double-dating on Valentine’s Day, 2024.

2/13

Got me ducks all lined up in a row. I get to recycle that bad joke once a year. It’s in the contract.

2/12

And with a flick of her wing she was off…

2/11

The most borbtastic sparrow ever!

2/10

Crow has that “I know more than you know” look, and y’ know, she just might!

2/9

A gull‘s life is not all squabbling around a dumpster. This one’s a youngster and identifying young gulls is way above my pay grade.

2/8

“Eyes red with passion, they looked for a safe place to satisfy…” OK, give me a break here. You try writing bodice-ripping prose about a pair of Horned Grebes and see how well you do.

2/7

A pair of stylish boulevardiers putting down some profile on the streets of Salem, Oregon.

1/27

Shorty really really really doesn’t want you entering the restricted area.

1/26

Not to be trifled with.

1/25

“What’s this? Sunny weather? Around here, we don’t do sunny in January!”

1/24

Let’s double down on the Buffleheads with this photo of a female we saw paddling around the pond at Golden Gardens Park the other day. While it was sunny and bright, the 20-knot north wind felt like was coming direct from deep British Columbia.

1/23

Who doesn’t like a Bufflehead? These little ducks bob up and down in the pond and try to stay out of everyone’s way. The males have lovely iridescent green/blue head feathers topped by a sparkling white cap. Jim Dubeck, one of We Happy Few, sent in this

1/22

Coots, coots, and more coots. Coots as far as the eye can see.