Birder Gallery
2023
August
July
June
May
April
march
Kestrel, shared with permission of photographer
Sapsuckers and woodpeckers like King County Washington in the early season of the year.
January
American dipper
Ring necked duck
Trumpeter swans
Snow geese
2021
Blue heron and Canada Geese
The Gulls story
November
october
peering up at the peering blue heron!
A Simple Sparrow
September
hide and seek, a game we like to play
Water birds of the month - a seagull, heron, and cormorant
August
July
Lazuli Bunting
June
A lazuli bunting
Towee
Blue heron
may
There were no walls, but I'd love to have been a fly overhearing this conversation...
Who is that masked bird? My second common yellowthroat of the year!
April
A Handsome guy - red wing blackbird
March
waterbirds
Yellow legs
february
Birds in the snow
january
hi, come here often? says the adorable little house finch
No audio... This conversation will never be repeated. Looks friendly enough. Maybe sharing news on what feeders are best in the neighborhood?
tha king...fisher
2020
December
Common egret
Swans and Geese - families
Kestrel Pair
november
The canadian geese are arriving
eagle at the watering hole
Sitting so
pretty, pigeons on
a pole!
pretty, pigeons on
a pole!
lovely swans
October
In the yard
A handsome hawk
September
Canada Geese return for winter
August
birds on the beach
July
lone eagle
Goldfinch in thistle
June
Towee
Geese family
Swallows in line at the park - social distancing but not a full 6 feet apart....
May
egret
Birdie at home
Nesting, continued
april
Nesting time
Greater yellowlegs
Coming, my love, my dinner....
The beach was crowded with little social distancing but that's okay - no humans were around.
March
I hadn't seen a cormorant in years. This guy was just hanging out a few feet from two herons. I loved his interest in his surroundings.
First swallow of the season
Male models - pretty duckies
He fits.... he sits. Find the sparrow!
At the heronry
february
january
The Eagle
The gull sailed majestically along the pond in the field, meeting a group of merganser ducks graciously, and gliding on.
At the sparrow deli - January 2020
December 2019
2019 Bird pics
Sittin' and Thinkin'
Sitting more than thinking.
On a wave
November 2019
Backyard birding in November
Turkey Buzzards
looking forward
The crows and the hawk didn't scare each other. Something in the distance caught all their attentions at once.
trumpeter swan
The American bittern
October 2019
Towee in the fall
Greater white fronted geese
angling 'round the suet feeder
tale of a gulls walk
The outlook stood proud on the bridge column. Below, about 6 gulls lined up on a log. The gull at the far right hand side decided he wanted to go to the far left side. He started walking down the log. But the comrades beside him had an altercation or discussion of some sort. He had to hop into the water and wade to the other end. He hopped up and took his new position and everyone was happy again. The end.
wood duck
september
September sparrows
sparrow in a river
August
Hummer delight
Canada Geese begin to return
starlings in summer
Goldfinches
Red Tailed Hawk on lightpole
Common yellowthroat in downy thistle
July
American Dipper
Canada Geese in July
Western wood pe-wee
Savannah sparrow
Common terns
Chipping sparrows
They aren't in jail - they're on a chain link fence!
House finches
june
Swallows
MAY
Sanderlings
Hummingbird
Brown headed cowbird
Common Yellowthroat
wood duck
She walks in beauty …. Killdeer
aPRIL
EAGLE
HAWK
SUNDAY AT THE POND
Heronry
MARCH
A TRIP TO THE PARK
mERGANSER IN SPRING
February
Walmart blackbird
backyard cuties
January
Pecking away
Who cares about the road nearby? Or the dog sniffing around? Or that silly paparazzi snapping pictures?
Deep thoughts - or no thoughts
It's all good for this blue heron as he sits by a tiny stream in Flaming Geyser Park. Not much to think about. Not much to do...
Duck community: where everybody knows your name...
Chickadees parade
The Red-winged Blackbird Star
He was not shy. The red winged-blackbird is a handsome passerine in the colorful Icteridae family. I think their most common sound is weirder but many professionals hear teeree. They also have a dit sound. I caught this fellow's show at Flaming Geyser park just outside Auburn, WA.
January 21, 2018. He cried like a baby. Not over my pictures, though they didn't turn out the best. I'm not sure if he was making a mating call or what. But I found him by his cry. This star was at Flaming Geyser Park. My dog Katie and I were walking for her pleasure and I tried to get a little birding in. The red breasted sapsucker was a natural diva with his active pecking and calling. I was just the camera crew.
Some parking lot beauties.
Swans
Blue herons
Eagles
Robins of Flaming Geyser, Winter of 2018
Mirror Images of a killdeer and a duck
Unrobin?
Kingfisher
The Violet Green Swallow
A mystery bird
I took this photo at Flaming Geyser park. My first thought was that the bird was a robin because of it's size and proximity to other robins. Then I realized it wasn't so. The yellow eyebrow was one hint. The wing pattern was another. What do you think?
Canada Geese family
I love Canada Geese. They may be my favorite birds. At the least they're in the top 5. They are family oriented. They mate for life, and don't always re-mate when their other half passes away. Parents raise their young together, and families stay together. You'll see in the slideshow below that this is a multi generation gaggle of Canada Geese.
Scrub jays
They're loud, cute, and pretty.
Starlings on a wire
They're considered nuisance birds by many. But they have very pretty voices.
Pigeons
Humming bird
All photos copy write Pamela Murrey
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