Pipevine swallowtails in flight; National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX

🪶 Harris's Hawk

🪶 Great Kiskadee

🪶 Altamira Oriole

🪶 Long-billed thrasher

🪶 Golden-fronted woodpecker in the brush

🪶 A sparrow catches the sun

🪶 A gulp of cormorants crowd a small log

🪶 A Steller's jay prepares to dart away

🪶 Great blue heron fish toss 🦈

🪶 A heron makes a catch

🪶 Coots on the run

🪶 A great blue heron has a bit of a yell

🪶 Seahawk

pipevine swallowtail

underwing moth

Rocky mountain parnassian / apollo butterfly

blue dasher dragonfly, female (2 image stack)

Lorquin's admiral butterfly

An autumn meadowhawk dragonfly having a snack

An autumn meadowhawk sparkles in the sun's special nourishment.

Honeybee. This one lives in the hive in my yard and decided to try swimming in her water bowl. She was dutifully rescued and returned to her sisters after the photo shoot.

Strawberry crown moth

bubbly stink bug

Mayfly

Alucita hexadactyla moth

Hoverfly

Black-tipped blue darner on fading rhododendron

Blood bee (sphecodes) from below

the leap | hoverfly x forget-me-not

Black-tailed bumble bee on bistort

Buttercup fly

Hoverfly forget-me-not

The climb | zebra spider (salticus scenicus)

Hoverfly on barberry

A fuzzy bee fly dines on wintercress

A small beetle encounters a large flower

A fairy bee rests on a textured leaf

A red nomad/cuckoo bee gathers pollen

🪶 An osprey is excited for dinner

🪶 A flicker ponders their next move

🪶 A ring-necked duck makes ripples in the lake

🪶 Pigeons make a connection

🪶 A great blue heron preens in a tree

🪶 A house sparrow watches the rain

🪶 A house finch between the pickets

🪶 A starling adorns the driftwood

🪶 A Steller's jay forages for ants on a log

🪶 An eagle oversees their kingdom

🪶 A spotted towhee in profile