Here are some photos taken on that trip ...
Common Raven - These don't often sit still long enough for a photo, but this handsome bird did, well, maybe for one second longer than normal anyway. The wind was blowing and exposed some of his undercoat :
Purple Martin - It was a nice surprise to find this lone bird sitting on a fence wire at eye level and not 30ft up on the top of a pole :
Tree Swallow - I never get bored of the beautiful coloration on these little insect eaters :
Mink - Here's a good advertisment for survival of the fittest. This stunning streamlined predator made short work of dispatching the hapless Richardson's Ground Squirrel when it popped its head out of its burrow :
11 comments:
How decent of the swallow to pose on the barbed wire - makde for a great shot - all are nice, of course.
Excellent array of images. Again!
Have to see a mink in the wild yet!
Cheers, Klaus
Many thanks to the both of you.
This is only the second time I've ever seen a Mink myself Klaus :-)
I loved being able to see the mink having never seen one myself personally. That tree swallow certainly shines in your photo!
Great shot of the mink, I know how quick they can be. I was photographing a sunset on a northern lake a few years ago when I heard a sound behind me and when I looked I saw it was a mink. By the time I got my camera pointed in its direction it was already gone. That's the only one I've ever seen.
Thanks guys. Yeah, that Mink was racing along . I fired off three quick shots, and that was the one that didn't show him blurred out ! :-)
Nice sightings and beautiful pictures! The minks around here duck under cover the instant I see them.
What can I say. Your photographs are FANTASTIC!
Thanks Anna. I really enjoy your blog too btw ! :-) Makes me very homesick
The first guy looks extremely proud of himself.
Tree swallow is shiny and looks brilliant!
That swallow is something else! Almost looks like a piece of metalic fabric over a cotton ball.
:-)
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