Birds

Osprey flies with fish in talons

Osprey takes its catch to a tall tree

Bewick's Wren in full song

Mating Pair, Great Egrets, High Island, TX

Great Egret Preens While Babies Gape, Rookery at Smith Oaks, High Island, TX

Great Egret parents preen while nestlings look on, Smith Oaks rookery, High Island, TX

Great Egret offers a twig to his mate for nest-building as Spoonbills look on, Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, Texas

Great Egrets at the Nest, Smith Oaks Rookery

Mother Great Egret Tends Youngsters, Smith Oaks Rookery

Three Sisters, Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX

Debonair Male Egret Brings a Twig to Female Building the Nest, Smith Oaks Rookery

Mama Great Egret and Fuzzy-headed Nestlings, Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX

Gorgeous Pair in Breeding Plumage, Smith Oaks Rookery

Great Egret in Art Deco Finest

Roseate Spoonbill Land in the Rookery at Smith Oaks, High Island, TX

Little Blue Heron With a Twig for the Nest, Shares a Perch with a Spoonbill, Smith Oaks Rookery

Mating Pair, Little Blue Herons, Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX

Nesting Spoonbills during Springtime in High Island, TX.

Wilson's Warbler bathing

Photographed, or quilted?

Sandhill Cranes Roosting in a flooded field at sunset

Sandhill Cranes fly in tandem over the stubble fields of Sacramento Delta

Little Blue Heron rests in a lagoon at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC

Beautiful Flamingo Preens Feathers of Light

Tender Nibble Shared by White-Winged Dove Pair, LaPaz

Marbled Godwit's Wing, and willets

Sandhill Cranes behind a Veil of Red-Winged Blackbirds, in the Sacramento Delta

Green Heron Silently Watched from the Reeds, Anahuac Refuge

Male Boat-tailed Grackles Test Out their Courting Rituals on One Another

White-Faced Ibis fly into the sun at Anahuac Refuge