Brett Peters's Photos

A Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) visits the lawn outside my window at lunch today. He entertained us while he ate his own lunch.

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A Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) visits the lawn outside my window at lunch today. He entertained us while he ate his own lunch.

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The only brown woodpecker in Virginia, the Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is an odd duck among woodpeckers: it migrates and commonly feeds on the ground. A pair have moved into the area in the last few days. When I first saw them rooting around in the leaves, I thought it was a Brown Thrasher... then a Mourning Dove... then a woodpecker that had lost its mind. (The red chevron on the nape of the neck was what clued me to its true nature.) This is the male of the pair, whith his big black moustache. No, really! Just take a look.

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The only brown woodpecker in Virginia, the Northern Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is an odd duck among woodpeckers: it migrates and commonly feeds on the ground. A pair have moved into the area in the last few days. When I first saw them rooting around in the leaves, I thought it was a Brown Thrasher... then a Mourning Dove... then a woodpecker that had lost its mind. (The red chevron on the nape of the neck was what clued me to its true nature.) This is the female of the pair, lacking the black moustache of the male. It was actively feeding in the leaves around this tree for almost 15 minutes this morning.

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Closeup of the new plum tree Merrystar purchased this weekend.

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Partially obscured by clouds, tonight's waxing gibbous moon is undeterred by daylight.

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A male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) takes a quick nibble from the sesame seed feeder.

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A very, very young pine tree.

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View of my backyard from my hiding spot under a pine tree, waiting for birds. This is a different shot than I normally take, laterally along the treeline instead of across the lawn. I'm quite surprised at how different it looks from this angle, considering.

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A male American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) perches on a thistle feeder in my backyard. The patchiness is caused by the winter coat moulting.

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An American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) perches on a thistle feeder in my backyard. My camera doesn't have a remote, so I sat in the shade of a pine tree about 3 meters away from the feeder and waited. Eventually, I was rewarded with this visitor.

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The moon was high in the sky this evening.

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Two of my bird feeders await the diners in the late afternoon sun.

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