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Rookie Mistake
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Most of the food the magpies pick up from our feeder does not get eaten right away. Instead they fly around and bury it somewhere, hoping they will be able to remember where they put it and come back to it before some other bird finds it. This young magpie tried to stuff it’s treasure down into the snow on this fir tree branch. It kept pushing it down and the snow kept falling off of it to reveal it again. Finally it pushed it so far it fell through the branch and landed down below somewhere. The magpie flew down to try and recover it. I don’t know if it was a successful recovery or not.

Spread ’em
Bozeman, Montana
2022

The back lighting on this magpie makes its wings translucent. (Note the shadow of the chain on the white parts of the bird’s left wing.

Fly-By
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Usually the crows and magpies spar over the food that we put out for them, with the crows tending to dominate. For some reason the crows have not even showed up recently. They’re around though–I caught these three flying by in a snowstorm. Maybe they don’t like the menu choices.

Shout!
Bozeman, Montana
2022

Happy Holidays
Bozeman, Montana
2009

This image is from quite some time ago. We don’t have much opportunity to see this kind of scene at our mountain house these days as we’ve been spending winters in town. I am sad to not see such lovely winter scenes as this anymore but at the same time very happy I don’t have to clear snow on a half mile of road all winter. Life, as we all know, is full of trade-offs.

We’re fortunate again this year to be able to spend some of the wintertime in Arizona, and are headed that way now. We’re camping in the Mojave Desert right now. No snow or cold here. It doesn’t look like Christmas out here but the weather is great.

Old One Eye
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Cow Catcher
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Signifying Nothing
Dubois, Wyoming
2021

Crow Light
Bozeman, Montana
2022

A full silhouette of a crow launching off of a street light pole. I like the minimalist, somewhat abstract, look of the image but also the way my eye and brain immediately pick up on the crow but then stumble a bit on recognizing the light pole, I think because it’s expecting it to be another crow.

Flaps Down
Bozeman, Montana
2022