Amazing stills and video of snowy owls by Gerrit Vyn. [via The Kid Should See This]

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Common cranes fly over Venice, Italy. Amazing BBC footage. Zoom out, it’s worth it. [via Coudal Partners]

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My longtime flickr contact Bill Eaton caught a group of white ibises resting on a tree at sunrise. Wow.

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Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. Sophie and Liberty run into a “murmuration” of starlings. I must disagree (which I rarely do) with my most excellent source Jason Kottke, the quality of this video is perfect: it’s what my wife and I would make if we kayaked out to an island and caught a [...]

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Macedonia Brook State Park, Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I were hiking the other day and I spotted some unusual bark on a tree. On closer inspection the bark was riddled with woodpecker holes up and down the entire tree. The bird is a yellow-bellied sapsucker and it really likes this tree. As you’ll see in [...]

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Kottke’s got a great post on the imitating capacity of the lyrebird: The amazing lyrebird can mimic anything. Here’s David Attenborough blowing our minds describing what this bird can do. It’s quite amazing. The second video is, well, a remix and it made me laugh hard enough so that I had to post this link. [...]

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My long time flickr contact and even longer time friend Scott James has a nice set on hummingbirds. I particularly like the one I posted above, the hummingbird through the feeder is great.

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My flickr contact Birdwatcher 1406 shot an outstanding image of two egrets on a dead tree.

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My long time flickr contact Art is testing out Canon’s new EF 2X III Teleconverter with his 300mm lens. The feather detail on the chest of this female cardinal is extraordinary.

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I wedged my iPhone inside a bird feeder and recorded an hour of video. I captured this awesome HD extreme close-up of a woodpecker eating seeds and battling a red-winged blackbird. Looks like a red-bellied woodpecker. Great stuff. [via Boing Boing]

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Warren, Connecticut. This was my submission to The New York Times’ A Moment in Time project this morning. We have a pair of mallards that come to our pond to mate each year. This year they’re sharing the pond with a pair of wood ducks as well but today the mallards were here. Just after [...]

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An Orange breasted Sunbird feeds on Cape Honeysuckle at the top of Table Mountain. The bright colours in the distance is the sun on the roof tops of Cape Town. My long time flickr contact Michael Greenwood hit the jackpot with this one.

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100 days in Glacier National Park This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, [...]

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Hope Sandrow: Fowl, but Photogenic Incredible images of chickens.

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Kent, Connecticut. Another great dinner with our friend the artist Joy Brown and replacing her flying elephant she now has a robin. A sign of spring? We hope so.

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Barry Forbes caught a great moment.

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Warren, Connecticut. Nuthatches are my favorites of the birds on our feeders. They’re the only bird that can walk straight down a tree although like woodpeckers, they’re insect eaters as well as seed eaters. You can see how awkward this dude is on the feeder perch, his claws are really grasping to stay on. This [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. I always wondered how these birds can get enough purchase on a round peg to hold themselves up given that their little feet and claws aren’t built for this kind of perch. Some can but others feel the need to hold on elsewhere so they can pig out with abandon. Note: This is [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. This feeder is on the north side of our house and it’s tough to shoot given its proximity to the sun’s arc. However, I was able to get a few interesting shots including this one of a nuthatch who, upon landing immediately took off when she saw me. I love her little feet [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. More than any of the other birds on our feeders chickadees seem to have little problem with me standing ten feet away taking pictures. I suppose food trumps fear when the nights are getting colder and winter approaches. Note: This is an extreme crop as a test of the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 [...]

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