Great Blue Heron

Photograph of a bird, a Great Blue Heron, wading in a river. It is a large bird, facing left.  on the right side of the picture. It has a gray body and neck. Its head is white with a wide blue stripe the width of its head passing through its eye. Its beak is primarily yellow with some blue on the top. It has one leg and foot submerged in the water while the other is raised and is reaching toward the left.
The background is in 3 parts. The river is at the bottom, the mud bank is in the middle, and the top is green foliage.
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; SEP 2025

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Brushstrokes in the Fog

The picture is of a river with part of its far side bank. The river is covered by light fog. There are rays of sunlight filtering in through openings in trees along the far bank. The sunlight highlights portions of the fog creating shafts of light that illuminate and reflect from the river.
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA; July 2025

Molting Male Eastern Bluebird

A small, eastern bluebird perched on a tree branch in the left side of the frame. The background is blurred, green leaves.
Molting Male Eastern Bluebird;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2025

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Is there any ornithologist or other bird expert that can explain why the molting feathers are black? Are they the old ones or the new ones? Thanks

Two Woodpecker Specires

A bird, a Red-headed woodpecker, perched on a gray-tan tree trunk, between the trunk and a shadowed branch, on the left side of the picture. The background is blue sky. There is another branch on the right side of the trunk extending upward at a 45-degree angle.
Red-headed Woodpecker;
Island Ford, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA From the size of the hole it is examining, I suspect it be working on a nesting cavity.

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A bird, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker perched on the right side of a red-brown tree trunk on the left side of the picture. The right side of the picture is out of focus, brown-colored leaves.
Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025
A bird, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, perched on the right ide of gray-brown and reddish colored tree trunk. The bird is black and white with a little bit of brown on the head, neck and feathers. There is a tuft of green needles that appear to be sticking out of the bird’s head. The tree trunk takes up almost the whole picture frame.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Florida, USA; FEB 2025
This Sapsucker lacks the red chin and cap associated with Sapsuckers. It is either a juvenile or molting adult.

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Atlanta Snow Birds

A Northern Cardinal, a medium sized red bird with a dark colored face and dark, folded, wings on the left side of the picture. The background is white snow with scattered dark pieces of debris.
Male Northern Cardinal;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025

A few weeks ago, we got several inches of snow across the Atlanta, Georgia, USA metropolitan area. I took advantage of this uncommon occurrence to photograph some of the birds that reside here.

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A female Northern Cardinal, perched on a piece of wood lattice in front of a tree trunk. The bird is in the middle of the right side of the image. The bird is mostly light brown with red on its wing, feathers and the crest on top of its head. The background on the left side of the picture is indistinct.
Female Northern Cardinal;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025
A male Eastern Towhee, a medium sized bird on the left side of the image facing front. Its head, upper body and tail feathers are black. Below the black, the body is orange. The bottom of is body is white. The bird is set against a background of white snow with scattered debris and two tree trunks.
Male Eastern Towhee;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025

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Stunning Icy Morning

Icy Morning Highlighted by the Sun;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2024

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Winter’s Early Preview;
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, USA; OCT 2022
Glòrmhor Creag;
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, USA; OCT 2022

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Bird in Snow: Unique Photos from Atlanta

Orange-crowned Warbler;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025

Living in the Metro Atlanta Area, snow and ice are unusual. This past week, we had the rare opportunity, so I decided to share a few pictures of birds in the snow.

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Yellow-rumped Warbler;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025
Orange-crowned Warbler;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2025

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Some Backyard Birds

American Crow;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; FEB 2023

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Chipping Sparrow;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2024
Eastern Phoebe;
Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2024
Juvenile Eastern Bluebird;
Island Ford, Chattahoochee National Wildlife Refuge, Roswell, Georgia, USA; JUN 2024

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Cardinal Colors

Female Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2022

I’ve been holding some Cardinal pictures for a time when I had examples of color and situation variation.

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Male Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2024
Juvenile Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JUL 2022
Female Northern Cardinal
Island Ford, Chattahoochee NRA, Roswell, Georgia, USA; JAN 2023
Female Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; MAY 2023
Juvenile Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JUN 2024
Male Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; FEB 2023
Molting Northern Cardinal
Roswell, Georgia, USA; JUL 2022

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Eastern Towhees

Male Eastern Towhee
Roswell, Georgia, USA; MAY 2023

I wish I could have found these birds at one time and could have claimed they were a family. At least, to me, they are a great example of what a family may be.

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Female Eastern Towhee
Roswell, Georgia, USA; APR 2024
Juvenile Eastern Towhee
Roswell, Georgia, USA; MAY 2024

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