Tracking the Turkey Vultures on as they wheeled and soared on this windy day was difficult. I was fortunate to capture this image.

Tracking the Turkey Vultures on as they wheeled and soared on this windy day was difficult. I was fortunate to capture this image.

Heralding the arrival of a new day, the approach of autumn, and the approach of migration, a flock of Canada Geese flies across my field of view.

A Northern Cardinal hunts for tidbits.

As one Turkey Vulture glides overhead, another banks vertically.
What was going on? Aggression? Play? Collision avoidance? For the hell of it? Impossible for me to say; my attention was on the viewfinder. More importantly I’m not a Turkey Vulture.

The first major flight of Turkey Vultures is a most welcome sign that spring is here.

Despite a day of freezing rain, sleet, and rain, four bathing Pine Siskins are joined by an American Goldfinch.

House Sparrows forage in a cedar bush.

A White-breasted Nuthatch lets go and dives toward a bird feeder.

Two House Sparrows poke among landscape rocks for sunflower seeds.

The goldfinches have gleaned many of the seeds out of this sunflower head in our front yard.
