Blog / Bird Photos
These photos start in Summer 2024 and run through Spring 2025.
A blue jay at a platform feeder in my backyard.
Blue jay flying off from feeder.
JAY!! JAY!!
Ruby-throated hummingbird at my hummingbird feeder
A Downy Woodpecker visiting the same hummingbird feeder. Maybe it's drinking the nectar, maybe it's eating an ant??
Not a bird, just WMATA passing by Lake Artemesia, College Park
Northern Mockingbird at Lake Artemesia, College Park
Chickadee in a Quercus phellos (Willow Oak) at Lake Artemesia. Such a querky phellow!
Blue Dasher dragonfly at Lake Artemesia
A Gull flying above the shores of Delaware
Blue Jay standing above feeder, inquisiting
Red-bellied Woodpecker reaching its head around my backyard feeder to grab some sunflower seeds
A Downy Woodpecker and a Northern Cardinal after everyone else has finished off the sunflower seeds
Cardinal and a Blue Jay at my platform feeder
Somebody's domestic budgerigar got away and is perching on a backyard shed!
The Budgie shares a meal with a Tufted Titmouse
Two Blue Jays yelling together at a feeder
A Tufted Titmouse perched alone on my birdfeeder
Red-bellied Woodpecker in the distance on a tree in snowy Frederick Municipal Forest
A Dark-Eyed Junco perched on a snowy branch in Frederick Municipal Forest
A Dark-Eyed Junco at my feeder in the winter
A Northern Cardinal perched on a flowering Red Maple branch in March
A House Finch on the same Red Maple
This little Chickadee kept jumping down from the Red Maple to my feeder, grabbing a single sunflower seed at a time, and jumping back up to the Red Maple branch.
Another picture of the same Chickadee
An American Goldfinch in my yard during no-mow April
A family of Geese at Patapsco Valley State Park in early May
A Tufted Titmouse perched on a branch along the Patapsco River. Tufted Titmice and Chickadees are known to flock together, and I was able to hear a Carolina Chickadee in the distance as I was taking this photo.
A second photo of the same Tufted Titmouse
An American Robin perched in a branch in an upland section of Patapsco Valley State Park in Catonsville, MD.
A red-winged blackbird sitting in a tree at Lake Artemesia, College Park
Red-winged blackbird on a duck box
A Barred Owl sitting on the branch of a Sweetgum tree at Lake Artemesia, College Park