Little Bird Movies

 

Hello, 

I hope you enjoy my bird friends as much as I do. 

The top wee movie is in real time. 

You can see how swiftly they move. It is a fun little film due to having 22 birds coming and going.

Three types of chickadees and red breasted nuthatches.

 

 The wee movie above is in slow motion.

I love seeing the second bird, the female red breasted nuthatch, when something gets her attention behind her and turns swiftly. Things like that are hard to see in real time. 

And just in case you are loving these, one more little slow motion film of a mountain chickadee:

Lovely day and beyond to you~

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When the Sun Shines

 When the sun lights up the world.....

This is the largest and deepest lake in Glacier National Park.

A beautiful place to simply be.

 Lake McDonald

 I love the little feather do on this one:

 Lovely day to you

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Spring flowers and a Chickadee

lovely spring beauties

one of our first flowers

usually in white(above)

sometimes pink:

do you know what these are?

(above)

I was thinking phlox, but i am not sure. 

the lovely pasque flowers are here!

I love this little ones hairdo

funny how feathers get ruffled

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Lovely spring day to you!

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Seasonal Glimpses

sweet little mountain chickadee

autumn raindrops

It has been a very cold autumn, more like winter cold.

snow a number of times

has come and gone

I love how the snow reveals who has walked by

in this case an elf....

(or possibly a skunk)

Ponderosa tree bark

artful and beautiful

occasional snowflakes

 as well as

beautiful frost

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Such a Wonderful Critter Summer

On a hike...

this massive guy was napping in the woods

we got to see him stand up and just be.....

he stood still for a very long time

driving through the mountains

seemingly 

at the top of the world

endless huge beauty

(B7 Pillar)

this mountain chickadee

sat/stood a foot from me

on this branch for quite a long time

at first I thought it wanted seed (see my last post)

but it did not take any

so we simply stood and listened and looked

and relaxed into the day

In the woods, off trail, taking to heart the details of forest life. Spying a sylvan mushroom, brightly colored red. I must take it's portrait, a photograph. But how to get through the tangle of downed trees, scramble of branches. Ducking this and that, making my way to it, I hear a sound and look up to see a little tree squirrel scrambling up a spruce tree, with the mushroom, the very same mushroom in it's mouth, twice as big as the squirrels head. Up up up the tree trunk and then lays it on a branch to age and dry. The squirrel nearly flies to the earth in search of it's next foraged meal. 

What are the chances of that! The squirrel got to and took the mushroom before me. Still inspires a smile, as I remember. It was quite dark in the forest or I would have tried to video that busy squirrel for you.  

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Lovely end of summer 

(or winter) to you!

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Beautiful and Fun Nature

this is how it began

the little nuthatch got braver

ta-daa! 

seed accomplished

Hey! I don't like a mouse near my food!
(this, tiniest mouse I ever saw.... was nearly under my foot. Thank goodness I saw it)

then the mountain chickadees joined in

I have these wee birds following me around the forest for food

I would have never guessed this could happen

anything

for food 

my favorite

recent sunset

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Considering Love

natures lovely hearts

this one dressed in 

raindrops

through time

a peachy rock

is shaped as a heart

forest fungi

forms as a heart

ice crystals

live in my heart

we all love our little birds

that stay all winter

singing through our milky gray days

(mountain chickadee)

I don't collect heart rocks

(except as photos)

but when I find heart shapes in nature

they do inspire a smile

 last week the sun came out

inspiring pine grosbeak to bath in the creek

you might want to click to see the wee film in full screen
sorry i could not hold the camera still with the lens zoomed out

the males are red and females gold

such a dear sight

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lovely day of love to you

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