It's A Bird!

It was a drizzly, humid morning, so I opted to do other things this morning.

I scrolled down through the most recent posts, and it looks like this is a butterfly blog, rather than a blog about birding. So I looked back through my recent pictures looking for a bird picture. I haven't taken many lately! But here is one from last week.

A Northern Shrike. They are often seen perched on a telephone wire (as this guy is). They hunt from this perch. Their prey include large insects, small lizards, mice, and small birds. Shrikes will impale their prey on thorns or barbed wire. (ugh, I never like seeing the survival of the fittest thing)


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Photo taken near Stagecoach Lake SRA.

Stagecoach Lake SRA

I decided I would head south of town for a change today. It was overcast and muggy. Which made me grumpy because I wanted to take some pictures of the Stagecoach Lake. Nonetheless, I trundled off. It turned out to be an okay day.

My favorite photo of the day was this little guy, and I do mean little. They are a challenge to photograph. Then for some reason the id'ing of them seems to be a challenge too. Oh well, I always learn something in the process!


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Over at the photography site I now have a gallery for Stagecoach Lake SRA

Update The little guy is an Eastern Tailed Blue