This Eastern Bluebirds photo is one of our first ever Eastern Bluebird photos. These male and female Eastern Bluebirds are checking out a nesting box to raise this year’s family. We thought this photo was unique in the way the male Eastern Bluebird is checking out the nesting box. They also both went inside to check it out.
If you might like to have this photo, it is for sale at our Pictorem store.
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Here are a couple Painted Bunting photos that we have recently taken at a public garden in Southwest Philadelphia. These photos were taken in the second week of January of a bird a long way from home. Those of you who live in the southern part of our country have probably seen these songbirds quite often. The birds spend a good part of their non-breeding time in Central America. These unusually colorful birds migrate and breed in the Southeast and in the south-central United States. Male Painted Bunting birds are very easy to spot since their colors are blue, green, red and yellow. The female birds are just bright green in color.
Even though the birds are a long way from home in Philadelphia, this is the third consecutive year that one has been spotted at this location. We felt fortunate to have been able to take some photos of this Painted Bunting. We hadn’t visited this garden before, and it was our first time seeing one of those very colorful birds. Painted Buntings are medium-sized birds similar in size to finches. They’re a very colorful species in the Cardinal family, along with other Buntings, Grosbeaks and Tanagers.
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Here’s a Leucistic American Robin photo we took fairly recently. It’s possible you may have seen one of these birds, but it was a first for us at the time. I definitely am not a bird or genetics expert, but according to a variety of online sources, leucism describes defects in pigment cells caused during a bird’s development, which prevents pigments from reaching some or sometimes all of a bird’s feathers. The degree of leucism varies with a bird’s genetic makeup. The skin and eyes remain their normal pigment and color. You will see white splotches on its head or back.
We also have a photo of a Canadian goose that appears to be leucistic. We saw both of these at separate times while on our photo walks at a local wildlife refuge.
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This is our most recent Red-shouldered Hawk photo. We walk two to three times a week at the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge trying to get photos just like this. The funny thing is we took this photo right out our kitchen window. There’s a tree in our neighbor’s yard that hawks use constantly for surveying the area. Usually they are Cooper’s Hawks or Red-tailed Hawks. This is the first time we’ve ever seen a Red-shouldered Hawk in that tree, and we’ve lived here a long time.
Just in case you might be interested, we recently included this photograph in two of our newest calendars that we have for purchase. The wall calendar is located at our store in Zazzle. Our desk calendar is located in our store at Createphotocalendars. We also have a photograph of this same bird for sale at our Pictorem store.
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