Birds and Birding

Hooded Oriole

Back Yard April 2023

Wilson Warbler

Backyard April 2023

Cooper's Hawk

Neighbor's Front Yard April 2023

Western Bluebirds

Our Driveway January 26

Snowy Owl January 5, 2023

Surprising Appearance in Cypress CA

10 AM

Late Afternoon

Early Evening

 (Just a) House Finch

Backyard in bamboo November 30

Cassin's Kingbird

Backyard November 18

Ravens at Arches National Park October 14, 2022 

Snowy Egret 9AM Bolsa Chica Wetlands August 24, 2022

Osprey 7AM Bolsa Chica Wetlands July 27, 2022

Hooded Orioles Los Cerritos Wetlands, Seal Beach June 4, 2022.

Puffins captured on film. The location: Saint Paul Island (Pribilofs AK). The year: 2000. How: Climbed down a cliff.

March 2022

Photos from Upper Newport Bay Bird Walk with Sea & Sage Audubon

https://dwkee.blogspot.com/2022/03/upper-newport-bay-bird-walk.html

October 2021

Bolsa Chica Wetlands 10 AM high tide

Double-crested Cormorants

American White Pelicans

September 2021

Backyard Cassin's Kingbird

August 2021

Red Tailed Hawk (McGaugh Elementary School)

July 2021

Backyard Hooded Orioles (6 AM), Seal Beach CA

January 2021

Bolsa Chica Wetlands

Whimbrels

Great Blue Heron

American Widgeon

American Widgeon

Kildeer

Common Merganzer

Red Egret, Common Merganzer, Great Blue Heron, and Snowy Ergrest

Our Backyard Birds

Cooper's Hawk

Allens's at our Window

Judy's Friend

A Cold and Windy Day

October 2020

Horned Lark taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands appears in the 2021 Wings Over Bolsa 

Calendar published by the Bolsa Chica Land Trust

Lookback: DSLR to micro 4/3s

September 2006

Island Jay, Santa Cruz Island CA (Canon EOS D60/EF100-400 f4.5-5.6L) 

December 2006--Arizona Woodpecker, Ramsey Canyon AZ (Canon 20D replaced my D60)

 

November 2012--Sand Hill Cranes, Bosque Del Apache NM (last DSLR, a Canon 7D)

November 2014--Sand Hill Cranes, Bosque Del Apache NM (Olympus EM5/Lumix G X Vario 12-35mm F2.8)

2020 Cameras and Lens

Olympus EM1 Mk2 Olympus 300 mm 1:4 IS PRO/M.Zuiko Digital 1.4x MC-14

Olympus Pen-F Olympus M.Zuiko Digital 40-150mm 1:2.8

July 2020--Oriole nesting pair

July 2020--Allen's (front yard feeder and earlier at window aloe vera)

June 2020--Common Tern and Great Blue Heron (Bolsa Chica Wetlands)

May 2020--Least Tern and rare Ridgway's Rail (Bolsa Chica Wetlands)

May 2020--Red Tailed Hawks (McGaugh Elementary School)

May 2020--Scrub Jays (neighbor's yard)

May 2020--Backyard Bushtit

April 2020--Outside our window

March 2020--Cooper's (backyard)

February 2020--Evidence showed something bad happened to a bird in our yard. The perpetrator returned--a gorgeous Cooper's hawk

December 2019--Western Blue Bird (across the street)

October 2019--King Birds (across the street)

August 2019--Willets photo appeared in Wing's Over Bolsa, Bolsa Chica Land Trust Calendar

October 2018--Allen's photo appeared in Wing's Over Bolsa the Bolsa Chica Land Trust Calendar

January 2018--Dancing Red Egret (Bolsa Chica Wetlands)

 

South Florida Birding Photos:  http://dwkee.blogspot.com/2018/05/south-florida-with-high-lonesome-bird.html

Links for recent Alaska Birding:   Barrow   Dutch Harbor   Dutch Harbor Eagles   

About Camera Downsizing: https://dwkee.blogspot.com/2013/10/birding-snapshots-camera-downsizing.html