#birds Comb crested jacana, a wading bird found in Australia.

Fall colors lining the Tualatin River. Photo taken from a drone about 250 ft above ground.

Two great horned owl youngsters posing for me. #birds #birdphotography

Pelicans catching fish and stealing fish. #birds #birdphotography

A male Northern Harrier flies right over me. #birds

#birds #birdphotography Courtship ritual of Clark's Grebes. Klamath Falls, Oregon

#birds #birdphotography Usually Canada geese will lift off or dive in the water when a bald eagle attacks, but on this day the geese went after the eagle.

#birds #birdphotography Once in a lifetime shot of two eagles fighting in a lake and of course it was extremely foggy that morning. Only so much you can do to enhance the photo.

#birds #birdphotography Crows checking out a bald eagle. They were a quarter mile away so not a great technical shot, but kind of humorous.

Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography It took a while but the cormorant eventually swallowed the fish. They maneuver the fish until it's positioned just right and then it goes down the cormorant's throat.

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography Common mergansers When a merganser catches a fish the other mergansers try to take it away.

Found it. It's at the apex of the labia majora,

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography Slow motion coot Here's a coot aborting takeoff for some reason.

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography Sound on! Annoying flicker on our chimney claiming his territory.

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography Double crested cormorant. Looking pretty spiffy with the white sideburns. The feet are more for swimming and not hanging around in trees, but there it is anyway. Photo taken at the La Jolla cove in Calif.

#birds #naturephotography #birdphotography Couple of coots building their nest. This is in a light industrial park with a protected wetland for waterfowl.

Since the whole point of the Melania “documentary,” Jeff Bezos’s fawning bribe to Donald Trump, is to flatter the Trumps' brittle egos, it may reach levels of shameless fiction and obsequiousness not generally seen outside of television studios in North Korea.

Pied billed grebe nest. The adults take turns incubating the eggs. #birds #naturephotography #birdphotography

Forget Pulp Fiction. Mayonnaise on your french fries is really good.

#birds #naturephotography #photography #birdphotography Bald eagle pair at a local wildlife refuge. Maybe should Photoshop in a more dramatic sky.

#birds #naturephotography #photography #birdphotography African jacana. Sometimes referred to as the Jesus bird.

#birds Osprey catches a fish in slow motion.

#birds #birdphotography Hamerkop or Hammerhead. Got this shot while in Uganda years ago.

#birds I was real lucky to get a shot of a shoebill stork while in Uganda a few years ago.

#birds Snowy owl checking me out. I only noticed recently that its head is rotated 180 degrees!

#birds Juvenile sandpiper feels pretty safe under mama's belly.

No more vertical videos! Please rotate your phone 90 degrees.

#birds Great Blue Heron image using mirroring effect in Photoshop.

#birds So cool to hear sandhill cranes as they fly overhead.

#birds Great Blue Heron taking a walk

#birds A handsome Scrub jay in our backyard.

#birds This is either a dispute or a courtship thing that great blue herons do.

#birds Snowy owls will sometimes wander far from home in search of food. I photographed this one in Ocean Shores, Washington.

#birds Turkey Vulture Not as cute as the other birds around here but the bare head works just fine for them.

#birds Osprey are really good at catching fish.

#birds Great Blue Heron adult and chicks.

How would Bluesky be doing if Kamala had won?

Sales clerks tend to address me as sir. I don't remember when that first happened or which line I crossed, but there it is.

#birds Northern Flicker checking me out.

Oregon is a nice place to live. But not in November, December, January, February and half of March.

#Birds Photographers can get pretty close to the pelicans at the La Jolla Cove.

#birds Varied thrush in the snow.

#birds Bald eagle lands in a tree.

#birds Despite the "snipe hunting" stories there really is a bird called a snipe. This is a Wilson's snipe.

#Birds Bitterns make weird noises.

#birds Green heron retrieving the meal it had dropped in the water.

#birds Bald eagle hunting a goose. The geese do all kinds of tricky flying maneuvers but eventually they land in the water where they dive every time the eagle swoops over. This time the eagle gave up and went after something easier.