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

Gloria's Birds: Zombie crow!

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(aka nictitating corvid. Birds, among other animals, have this membrane that they draw over their eyes for protection and to prevent dryness.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Whoops, Chelsea failed to stick the landing!

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

She should've heeded her mom and practiced more often. (Chelsea the Chestnut-backed Chickadee righted herself and took off again with the largest nut she could find:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Why do humans insist on saying "Birds of 'a' feather flock together” photog?

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

No such thing exists. Take me for example: head feathers, shoulder feathers, tail feathers...all different shapes and patterns. 

You guys give us no credit for the diversity that is nature!

(Cora Crow’s a mite testy, but seems to me she’s got a point! There are no birds of a feather!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: True, I'm not between a rock and a hard place, photog,

Saturday, January 6, 2024

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

but still I feel hemmed in, said Beatrice.
(Bewick's Wrens are here year 'round, for which I'm grateful.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler

 

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Gloria's Birds: Tallulah looked a good way into the distance to see what 2024 might bring...

Monday, January 1, 2024

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

[Tallulah the Townsend's Warbler is not one to spill the beans, though; the rest of us will just have to wait and see! 'Till then, Happity New Year from Tallulah and me.]

--Gloria Z. Nagler


 

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Gloria's Birds: Hermione hurried off for some last-minute holiday shopping...

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Probably a Sharp-shinned Hawk because of the squared-off tail, rather than a Cooper's Hawk with a rounded tail.)

Bird folks are telling me this is a Cooper’s Hawk, and they may well be right!

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Hey, Nadia, I didn't know you'd be here today!

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Wanna hang out over a cuppa joe after lunch?

(Red-breasted Nuthatches can be the friendliest sort...)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Critters: I'm as appealing as any Varied Thrush, photog

Thursday, December 7, 2023

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

so why not lay off the birds for a while and focus instead on us mammals?

(Raelynn the Raccoon was adamant about wanting a portrait session, and so photog complied:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: I'm assuming the reservations I made

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

to stay in your ravine are good for the entire winter, yes, photog?

--Indeed, I'd have it no other way, you splendid [male] Varied Thrush!

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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"Happy Thanksgiving to all," said Ruby the Ring-billed Seagull

Friday, November 24, 2023

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

from her perch on Lake Washington.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Some people call it Autumn, I call it Puffy Jay Season:)

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler
 
(Steller's Jay in the ravine on a cold afternoon)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Are you sure that's a high quality portrait lens you're using, photog?

Sunday, November 19, 2023

 

(Bernice the Barred Owl had exacting standards for her photo sessions.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Birds: Rainy Day Jay

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Steller’s Jay (soon to be renamed, I hear) on our rainy deck the other day.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Critters: I'm sure glad she ain't lookin' at me!

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Hey Gloria - so say we all!!!


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Gloria's Birds: Yep, I looked away first!

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Cooper's Hawk on our deck the other day)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Half-moon sky

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Gloria says that she got out her bird lens for her moon shot. Clearly a bird's eye view of the moon.

The moon was visible tonight and it looked to be at 3/4, so I do need to publish moon photos as soon as I get them.

However, if we wait a few weeks, we'll be back to half-moon again.

Thanks, Gloria for this beautiful photo.

--Diane Hettrick


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Gloria's Insects: Harmonious Honeybees...

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(I often witness this scenario in the community garden. Bees working on the same blossom without obvious conflict, and apparently without fear of one another; they cooperate both inside and outside the hive.

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

We could learn something from them, doncha think?)

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Red-breasted Nuthatch has a sharp beak, indeed!

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

He'll wedge a nut or a bug into a crevice and open the morsel with his needle-sharp bill.

--Gloria Z. Nagler


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Gloria's Insects: Bumblebee takeoff

Monday, October 16, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler
From this summer at the community garden.
 

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Gloria's Insects: Hey, Hilda, room for one more?

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

 We Mason Bees are practically nanoscopic... you won't even know I'm there!

(And Mason Bees outperform honeybees in pollinating flowers...so c'mon, Hilda, let her in!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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