Showing posts with label gloria nagler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gloria nagler. Show all posts

Gloria's Birds: Although my Peterson's Field Guide says that Yellow-rumped Warblers are "our most abundant and widespread warbler"

Friday, June 3, 2022

Male yellow-rumped Warbler
Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

I've just begun spotting them in the last couple of months (should have retired earlier:). I love warblers' coloring, and their short, pointy beaks!

There are two subspecies of Yellow-rumped Warblers, the Myrtle Warblers and the Audubon Warblers.

Female Warbler about to launch
Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

The Myrtle Warblers are more common in the East and have a white throat. The Audubon Warblers, common in the West, have a yellow throat as this male warbler does. The other, less colorful bird here, is a female.



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Gloria's Flowers: How much more stunning nature's work is than anything we can come up with!

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(John loves when I notice when his flowers bloom, so I took nine images of this iris and let the camera combine 'em. Also darkened the back a bit:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Insects: Existential interlude...

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler


(This is likely a horntail wasp, a/k/a wood wasp. No stinger, so a harmless creature. She wandered around the top of a fence post for minutes, seemingly in a quandary as to what to do; then the abyss got her attention.)

--Gloria Z Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: "Indecision may or may not be my problem,"

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

mumbled Betty Bumblebee when faced with two perfect blossoms…

(Well, OK, Jimmy Buffett said it first:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: Welp, a departing Tri-colored Bumblebee was the best I could do

Sunday, May 15, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

this week at the community garden -- very few bees! Fingers crossed that more show up soon!

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: I've looked at life from both sides, now, said Rudy the Red-winged Blackbird

Saturday, May 14, 2022

 
Redwing singing
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Vigilant blackbird indeed! 

He changed directions several times while singing his territorial tune.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler

Redwing singing the other way
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Gee willikers, Goldy, do you see what I see over there? yelped Barnaby Bunny

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Unfortunately, photog saw only the lovely Golden-crowned Sparrow -- soon to migrate north to her breeding grounds -- and a wild bunny on the shores of Lake Washington. Never got a peep at what they spied.)

--Gloria Z Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Happy Mudders' Day to all of Earth's mothers!

Monday, May 9, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

 This teenager is certainly paying attention to her mother...



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Gloria's Birds: Ol' Blue Eyes is back!

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Barry the Barred Owl agreed to a portrait sitting on the condition that I'd use that caption:). Actually, Barry's eyes are nictitating. Birds protect their eyes via this extra membrane, or third eyelid, which can be drawn across their eyes both to moisten the eye and protect it while retaining the ability to see).

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: That's right, photog, we birds of prey scan the sky, too;

Thursday, April 28, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler
...to see what's on the menu for lunch!

(Sharp-shinned Hawk in the ravine the other day...could be Cooper's Hawk, though I think this hawk's tail is squared off at the end. And she was pretty small. I wouldn't bet money either way:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Birds: Wigeon in Flight

Sunday, April 24, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(American Wigeon male soaring over Lake Washington. Pretty bird, indeed!)

--Gloria Z Nagler





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Gloria's Birds: Wally was practicing for the Easter Parade earlier today...

Monday, April 18, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(American Wigeon on banks of Lake Washington)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Georgina and Gaylord Gadwall spent the afternoon announcing their engagement

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Gadwall couple
Photo by Gloria Z Nagler 

for all to hear (and most especially for other male Gadwalls to hear!).

(Birdnote.org tells me that Gadwalls are more monogamous than most other ducks. These two were in tandem throughout my time at the lake.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Critters: Ya see, photog, birds ain't the only ones!

Saturday, April 9, 2022

 

Mammals make good models, too.

(Debbie Doe stopped by while munching in a neighbor’s yard to chide the photog and get in a portrait session as well:)

--Gloria Z Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Barred Owl's my name, vigilance is my game...

Friday, March 25, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

(Lucked out when she spent time in a nearby ravine, using her 270˚ rotation abilities)

--Gloria Z Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Tough time id'ing me, photog?

Monday, March 21, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

 Let's just go with Noble Duck, whaddya say?

(Well, she IS a noble-looking duck! My guess is she's a hybrid Mallard. She has the orange feet and bill of a Mallard; the white blaze on her neck, though, comes from another kind of duck. According to the Audubon Society: The Mallard, readily interbreeding with other kinds of ducks, is the originator of most domestic duck varieties. The interbreeding can confuse photogs because of the variation in plumage:)

--Gloria Z Nagler







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Gloria's Birds: If only you'd host more of these spa days, photog,

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

 I could get you multitudinous models!

(Chessie the Chestnut-backed Chickadee liked to use alliteration when possible. Sadly, these birds are at risk in the Pacific Northwest due to clear-cutting)

--Gloria Z Nagler




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Gloria's Insects: Buccaneers of Buzz!

Friday, March 11, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler


Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles --
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
And subsist on Fuzz.

-- Emily Dickinson, lover of bees



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Gloria's Birds: Dancers don't need wings to fly, thought Carl the Coot, but me, I can do both!

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

 
(American Coot cutting a rug on Lake Washington)

--Gloria Z Nagler


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Gloria's Insects: Sure, photog, the flower's splendid,

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

but it's my sublime proboscis we should all focus on!

(Hetty Honeybee is splendidly sublime herself! Yay, bees!)

--Gloria Z Nagler




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