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Today I’m participating in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to show photos featuring featuring one item or the number one. You can click on the photos below for a larger view.
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I thought I’d stick to animals for this photo challenge. Here are a few examples of animals standing on their own among nature. Enjoy!
One proud white great egret.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One white great egret
One red-tailed hawk thinking about his next meal.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One red-tailed hawk
One fat squirrel, who could be the red-tailed hawk’s next meal…
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One fat squirrel
One stunning blue Stellar jay bird.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One Stellar jay bird
One monarch caterpillar munching on milkweed.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One monarch caterpillar
One little crab camouflaged in the sand on the beach.
Cee’s fun foto challenge: One crab camouflaged in the sand
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The world through my eyes seems pretty young right now. Besides my kids, I’ve been enjoying a lot of baby animals all around. Here are just a few I happened to spot yesterday and the day before.
A couple of days ago, I spent a little time by a local pond. While there, I noticed a lot of young birds, including this juvenile black-crowned night heron. He wasn’t shy at all and let me take a nice picture of him.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: The world through my eyes – juvenile black-crowned night heron
WordPress weekly photo challenge: The world through my eyes – juvenile wood duck
I was lucky enough to spot these two juvenile great blue herons in their nest at the very top of the tree. Check out the hummingbird who came to say hi to them. They seemed quite intrigued. If you ask me, these young herons are way too big to wait for home to bring their food and should go fly out on their own already.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: The world through my eyes – great blue herons
There are plenty of swallows around San Diego, specifically cliff swallows, who come in the spring to breed. They build their gourd-shaped mud nests on the outside walls of many homes, including my neighbor’s this year. I heard a lot of noise yesterday afternoon so I felt compelled to check it out. This is what I saw: many cliff swallows chatting with each other, while a juvenile swallow was sitting in the nest. There were actually a few more of them but they left by the time I grabbed my camera.
WordPress weekly photo challenge: The world through my eyes – cliff swallows
I hope you enjoyed these quick snapshots of the world through my eyes, at least for these past few days.
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I’ll start with a couple of photos I took yesterday of my neighbor’s house, right under their roof. We have tons of swallows (swifts if you don’t live in the U.S.) in San Diego and it’s nesting season right now. This swallow couple started building their mud nest just this week and they’ve been busy finishing it up to lay their eggs.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – swallows in their nest
Here’s another shot of just one of the parents. I can’t wait to see little chicks in there. I love watching the swallows hunting for insects every evening. It’s amazing to see so many of them moving so fast through in the air without flying into one another.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – a swallow’s nest
Talking about nests, here’s a dove sitting on its eggs. We have tons of mourning doves here too. I love listening to their soft cooing in the quiet of the morning.
Mourning dove sitting on its nest and eggs
Here’s a West African crane taking a nap. What a cool hairdo!
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – West African crane
I can’t help but laugh when I look at the next photo, where the duck is acting like he’s a flamingo, although his legs are about two feet too short. I guess he’s the real ugly duckling.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – Flamingo and duck
This great blue heron below was a freeloader at the San Diego Zoo, eyeing the small fish in the crocodile pond. I wonder if the crocodiles were eyeing him too…
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – Blue heron
Talking about herons, my last photo is of a green heron, which is a lot smaller than the great blue heron. A good looking little guy I should add.
Let’s Be Wild Weekly Photo Challenge – Birds of a feather – Green heron
If you enjoy my photos and would like to purchase some, I want to thank you! Simply visit my Zazzle online shop and browse the product offerings. If there’s a photo you would like to purchase but don’t see it in my shop, please contact me by using the Contact form at the bottom of my home page and let me know which photos you are interested in purchasing, and in what format / medium.Idyllwild, California, just two hours northeast of San Diego, is a small town known for its vibrant interest in music and the arts. It’s also right in the middle of the San Bernardino forest and is home of many animals and plants.
In my previous post, I featured a lazy squirrel relaxing in the sun. Here I’d like to feature a local bird that is just beautiful: the Stellar Jay. I’ve never seen any Stellar jay birds in San Diego, just blue jays, but there are tons of Stellar Jays in Idyllwild. In the pictures below, they were just standing on a tree right behind my cottage.
Here’s a photo of the female Stellar Jay bird:
Photo of female Stellar Jay bird in Idyllwild, California
Here’s a photo of the male Stellar Jay bird:
Photo of male Stellar Jay bird in Idyllwild, California
They really are beautiful birds but they have quite a feisty character. I saw them attack squirrels and chipmunks without hesitation to keep them away from the area they were feeding on. And they’re pretty loud too!
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