May 20, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Month: May 2020
Park after the rain
May 19, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Birdwatching
Bird photography – an ongoing series. Captioned with my best effort ID. (Many thanks to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and their Merlin Bird ID app.)
Below is a subset of bird photos found throughout this site, as well as an ongoing list of birds photographed with positive IDs.
List of birds photographed
- Acadian Flycatcher
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Goldfinch
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Tree Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Barn Swallow
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black Laced Silver Wyandotte
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Blue Jay
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Boobie
- Brown Creeper
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Bufflehead
- Canada Goose
- Carolina Wren
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chipping Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Common Loon
- Common Myna
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Towhee
- European Starling
- Field Sparrow
- Gadwall
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Gray Catbird
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Green Heron
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hooded Merganser
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Indigo Bunting
- Killdeer
- Laughing gull
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Mallard
- Merlin
- Mourning Dove
- Mute Swan
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden-Plover
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Siskin
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Rock Pigeon
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Scarlet Tanager
- Sharp-skinned Hawk
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tennessee Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Warbling Vireo
- White Tern
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-rumped Shama
- White-throated Sparrow
- Wild Turkey
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wood Duck
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
Spring marsh hike
May 16, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Climbers on El Capitan
April 21, 2015 – El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA
Judging from the route overlays found on this very cool El Capitan Gigapixel Climbing Routes page, these two climbers seem to be near the Sickle Ledge. At this point, they were much closer to me than they were to the top.
More birds after the rain
May 15, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
May showers
May 14, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Spring Birds
May 13, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Mallards, and wood ducks, and downy woodpeckers oh my!
Early morning light and shadow around the house
May 13, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
Sunny spring afternoon
May 12, 2020 – Ann Arbor, MI
