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BACKyards Series
Often the facades are maintained and the care erases the soul and the history of the houses and their inhabitants.. maybe the truth lives in the back yards?
There's a little story that goes with these two posts. We get many backyard birds all year round, and occasionally we get the birds of prey. It's been 4 years since I've seen the Barred Owl, so I am very excited it has returned. We have had hawks as well. Last Saturday this huge hawk was hanging out for a while on the fence and then I noticed the owl up on the garage roof. The owl flew down to the ground and immediately was confronted by dozens of crows who use gang warfare against them. He skirted into the trees and the hawk watched the whole thing take place. The little birds all scatter when the big guys are around. It was amazing to watch this all play out from the kitchen window.
HBW, HWW & HFF!
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)
The local Rainbow Lorikeets (and Fruit Bats/Flying Foxes) have decided that the Quinces on our tree are ripe enough. You can see some Quince flesh in this one's beak.
The first brood of backyard bluebirds has fledged, and the youngsters are very hungry. This little beauty is sitting on top of the mealworm feeder, waiting for Dad to deliver some food. I took this shot through the window this morning as I was enjoying a late breakfast. The bluebird nest box is nearby, and the mealworm feeder is just a few steps away from the back porch, so I get an excellent view of their activities while I'm enjoying a meal. And I'm always so proud when I see the next generation of bluebirds being raised in my backyard.
Backyard bird bath.
Just one of the many native birds to inhabit our yard this Wattle bird takes its early morning dip in the bird bath.
Spring Farm, New South Wales, Australia.
Have not been able to photograph for too long. I managed to setup in the backyard and get some shots.
there's beauty and mystery within my own backyard, just like there's beauty and mystery within myself. i only need to open my heart and mind, and pay attention—with curiosity and kindness.
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I confess I've been at war with 3 squirrels terrorizing my back yard. They were cute for awhile, frolicking with each other, but no more. They're climbing the stucco siding of my house to get to the bird seed feeder, hanging from the gutters, running speed contests on the roof. They broke my outdoor thermometer. They played Jungle Jim on a favorite plumeria till all the branches, flowers and leaves are busted off. Ethan counseled me to accept it - "winning is coping" he said. So, as long as they back off a bit and leave the seed feeder alone ... This afternoon my tree started raining little white somethings. Clearly, something was in the tree, defeathering or peeling I knew not what. I cracked open the patio glass door and knelt down to see squirrel on tree branch peeling a piece of fruit. I thought maybe oranges since I have an orange tree, but nope. I checked the peelings after it was gone - looked like maybe apple or jicama even. I should be happy it comes to my yard to enjoy what it stole from a neighbor, and it's supplementing its bird seed diet and uh branching out. And there are still moments of cuteness and laughter, like a couple of days ago when I was near the fence on a chair picking oranges. Squirrel hopped on fence from the other side and met me face to face. THAT was funny. It ran so fast on that fence it slipped a couple times trying to get away. I'm pretty sure it was squeaking obscenities at me too.
A famous Canadian photographer named Freeman Patterson once quipped that good photography was not a matter of the
distance you were willing to travel. Rather, it was about seeing what was around you. In his book he mentions that the majority of his work was taken less than a kilometer from his house.
“Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.”
― Freeman Patterson
Sammy, one of our backyard gray squirrels,is the self-appointed backyard boss. This squirrel chases other squirrels away from food and from his favorite tree. He is also very greedy. Yesterday as I was sitting on the back porch eating an apple he paced back and forth at my feet, waiting for me to give him the apple core. Needless to say, I felt pressured to quickly eat the apple! Backyard wildlife.
Thankful for my backyard. Yesterday was a gorgeous warm day and I sat in a chair and just sat peacefully quiet and enjoyed the way back fence view.
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.
each evening, the bees move around my coneflower garden. it's a practice in presence. stand and watch. magic arrives in my own backyard.
Backyard Fawn
I always enjoy seeing deer bringing their fawns through my yard
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Backyard Coopers Hawk in Chester County, PA
This may not be as sharp as I would have wished, but I am still pleased to have been able to capture this grab shot while complying with the stay at home directive
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As I grow as a photographer I have realized that I needed to spend more time photographing in my "backyard" instead of dreaming and lusting for opportunities far away. I am lucky enough to live on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains as I am a stones throw next to West Virginia.
In years past in Autumn/Fall I would be venturing ALL over the place and putting hundreds of miles on my car on the weekends as West Virginia is home to places like Blackwater Falls State Park, Dolley Sods, Spruce Knob, and Babcock State Park to name a few. This places are beautiful, but I feel I need a break from them for a little bit because they are SO well photographed. So this year I made a decision to stay within a county of where I live and force myself down some back roads that I have not traveled in a long while and some never at all. I have found some wonderful treasures because fo this decision..and this is one of them.
I went monochromatic because #1 I love monochrome, #2 I was shooting in mid day, #3 the clouds were amazing, and #4...again, I love monochrome! HA!
We occasionally see a few wild turkeys passing through our front lawn, far from the house, on their way to the field. But this one decided to do some exploring and came to the back porch and looked around, then proceeded to slowly wander around the backyard. It seemed to be on an inspection tour, and after thoroughly examining the porch, lawn, trees, koi pond, and hedgerows it slowly wandered over to the field. This was the first time that we'd seen a wild turkey so close to the house. We never know what we will find on or near our back porch!
A charming little Elegant Snake-eyed Skink basks on his home fence on the Ceduna foreshore in South Australia.
Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 DSLR coupled to a vintage C/Y Yashica ML 55/2.8 macro lens with a third-party adapter. Hand-held with manual settings, manual focus and reflected side-lighting utilised.
Shot @ 2.8.
I love my Yashica..
Tiny backyard made for @newelementary competition “Construction Constructions”. Pleasure to get runner up prize. Construction parts used: 2x 18943 Technic Digger Bucket 5 x 7 x 4 1/2 Clamshell with Pin Hole and Axle Hole, 1x 43903 LegoTread with 20 Treads Small, 17x 4006 Minifigure, Utensil Tool Spanner Wrench / Screwdriver, 3x 64450 Windscreen 6 x 4 x 3 1/3 Roll Cage, 3873 LegoTechnic, Link Tread, 57518 Technic, Link Tread Wide with 2 Pin Holes. FIND THEM ALL 😃