Update and more birds

Climbing season is coming up quick. In two or three weeks Kevin, Gabe, Cynthia, and myself will be climbing Mt. St. Helens and I will be sure to post photos of the climb as early as possible. In addition to St. Helens we are planning on climbing Mt. Raineer this summer and there has been talk of one of the twins as well. Also, as some of you may already know, Kriss and I are planning on getting married this summer. As of right now the plan is to climb to the top of Mt. Lassen in Northern California on Friday, July 13 where Kriss' sister Jessica will be conducting the ceremony. This will be an incredibly informal event and all are welcome. The climb is merely 2000' of elevation gain over approximately 2.5 miles. To those of you who are unfamiliar with climbing, what that means, in a nutshell, is that this is the easiest climb of all the cascade volcanoes. For more information, check out climbing Mt. Lassen

In the mean time, I have decided to share some more bird pics, these where taken over the past week at my home.


This female Brown-Headed Cowbird will invade the nest of other species, eat it's eggs, and replace them with her own. The young will then be raised by their foster parents. Talk about lazy parenting.

As with most species of birds, the more colorful of these Evening Grossbeaks are the males.

American Goldfinch

Can't we all just get along?

White-Crowned Sparrow

Rufous Hummingbird

House Finch

Tribute to our avian friends

Little Blue Heron


Female Little Blue Heron


White Pelican



Brown Pelican


Ring-billed Gull


Double-Crested Cormorant


Black-Necked Stilt


Pied-billed Grebe

Dickcissel

Killdeer

Muscovy Duck

Roadrunner

Scrub Jay

Steller's Jay


Pink-sided Oregon Junco

Black-Capped Chickadee

This Scissor-Tailed Fly Catcher is one of only two North American birds whose tail is longer than his body.

On Christmas day this year I received a gift from this Red Breasted Sapsucker, he hung out on this tree for about two hours while I took close to 200 pictures of him. These are a few of my favorites.






Golden Fronted Woodpecker


Ring Necked Pheasant

Raven in Bryce Canyon

Black Vulture


Turkey Vulture

This Turkey Vulture was in a wild bird preserve in Austin Texas. The overall haze in the shot is due to the chain link fence that I was shooting through.

This picture of an immature Bald Eagle was taken from the helicopter while I was running Whirlybird photo.

Red Tailed Hawk