"Bright" Birds - Photos

Toucan

Goldfinch

Cardinal

Lorikeet

Gouldian finch

Fairywren

Fiery-throated hummingbird

Bird Courtship Caring & Displays

Attwater's Prairie Chicken   -  male dances and drums

Bluebirds  -  males display feathers and bring food

Blue-footed booby  -  male display

Blue bird of paradise - male hangs upside-down and displays plumage

Cardinals  -  males display plumage and bring tasty treats

Brown-headed cowbirds  -  males display plumage

European rollers -  males display plumage

Bird Photos

Believe you Can - just like this duckling!

Northern cardinal

Firey-throated hummingbird

Red-tailed comet hummingbird

Salvin's currassow

Brown-headed nuthatch

Great blue heron

Miscellaneous Photos

The late freezes and snows have damaged the crab population in the Chesapeake Bay and along the mid-Atlantic coast; it's estimated one-quarter  of all crabs died in the cold snap.  Expect higher crab prices.

A raccoon squeezed into a bird feeder to escape the notice of home owners - of course, they had risen early to fill the bird feeder....

Almost too bright - a male cardinal among blossoms

"The Tunnel of Love" outside of Kleven, Ukraine

Italian Spring majesty

Bird Photos

Cactus wren

Cardinal (male)

Painted redstart

Purple gallinule

Hoatzin

Molting Birds

Bald blue jay

 

Male cardinal

 

This almost-naked frizzle hen (foreground) is going through a "hard molt"; normally, she would look like the other grey and black hens around the black rooster...