FlowerShooter

Scissortail flycatcher, Oklahoma

A pair of juvenile Great Horned Owls that came to my Oak tree rarely together in one pic.

While sitting on the porch watching the bird feeders, this doe came up in the yard with her fawn.

Earlier this week the night was unusually clear and calm with the stars extremely bright. I set up my camera and the 200-500 lens that I use for birding shots and just wondered if it would be possible to photograph the rings of Saturn if I stacked my 1.4x and 2x extender together. It was not. However to my surprise, I did get the moons of Jupiter to show up on the photo.

The two juvenile Great Horned Owls sat on two of my firewood holder T-posts just at sunset tonight.

One immature male Painted Bunting and one mature Painted Bunting taken this morning.

Scissortail Flycatcher

Colton V, thanks for the nice comment. The mature male Painted Bunting is uniquely colored and is hard to miss, but the female is generally green colored and no blue on the head. Here is a picture I took today of a mature male Painted Bunting that shows the amazing colors of this bird.

Thank you akandula for the clarification and explanation. If I had not looked closely at the picture, I would not have even suspected it was an immature male, but your information seems to be right on the mark.

I understand the Male Painted Bunting may be slow to develop it's colors. When this bird came to the feeder, I assumed it was a female, but in looking at the color patterns on the picture, I was not certain if it was indeed a female or a young male yet to develop the full coloration. Could use some clarification. Thanks

Tonight is the first time the juvenile Great Horned Owls came to the yard before dark. It gave a chance to get some better pics of them playing.

Just after sunset, we frequently have 2 to 3 Great Horned Owls come up to the yard. Tonight one posed in the Oak tree.

Great Horned Owl

This summer we had two hatches raise in the bluebird boxes on the backyard fence. I would set the camera on a tripod with a remote shutter release and take pictures when the occasion arose. In this shot, the male bluebird seemed to resent the click of the shutter when he came to feed.