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My theme for today's Winged Wednesday is birds with berries. Just outside my desk window is a pyracantha bush and the berries have ripened attracting mainly American Robins and a few Cedar Waxwings this year. I added two Phainopepla photos from the same bush 2 years ago I hope everyone has a...

My contribution to today's Winged Wednesday is a selection of photos from a Peregrine falcon sequence. I see Peregrine falcons 20 times a year or so. "You have to find the bird that wants to play," is My motto for bird photography. I finally found a peregrine who wanted to play. We got close...

My contributions to today's Winged Wednesday are birds taking flight from water. Some birds need a running start to acquire the necessary lift while others just seem to pop out of the the water. So this is a snowy egret that landed on the back of a double-crested cormorant to steal his fish...

My contributions for today's winged Wednesday are photos of four birds and a bat coming toward me. Greater Roadrunner Harris's Hawk Long-eared Bat Sandhill Crane Egyptian Goose

My contributions to today's Winged Wednesday are five birds I've recently photographed and an extra to compare winter and breeding plumages. A special thanks to Marcy Starnes for posting awesome Mandarin Ducks photos and to Doug Sherman for arranging the photo shoot. I'll post more Mandarin...

My contributions for today's Winged Wednesday are birds in flight from Lake Pleasant, Arizona. American Avocets in non-breeding plumage Common Merganser hen Brown Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret

My contributions for today's Winged Wednesday were inspired by Doug Sherman's Gila Woodpecker on a flowering Saguaro posted last week. Cactus wrens perched on cholla cacti near their nest, Western Screech-owl enjoying the morning sun from his Saguaro nest. Gilded woodpecker. In...

Not too much to say about this small white moth. He's about 12 mm long. During the summer and early fall, hundreds of them are attracted to my door lights. I I have no idea why he rolled over. He righted himself within a few seconds.

All I have for today's Winged Wednesday are macro photographs of some interesting insects. This little moth's scientific name is Schinia argentifascia and he s about .4 inches long with a wingspan of .9 inches. In my neck of the world, leave the light on and they will come Western Paper...

I found this wasp drowning in my pool. In exchange for rescuing him, he agreed to pose for me. Usually insects I rescue from the pool will take a few minutes to recover before flying away.

For today Winged Wednesday I'll contribute a Potpourri winged animals. Always tough to get a beautiful orange metal post shot, when you get photobombed out of nowhere by a passing bird, oh well." Eastern Kingbird Long-eared Bat Western Grebe Queen Butterfly Grass Bug

I was feeding the birds and this guy walked up my leg. I stacked some pebbles in a bowl of water, placed him on the pebbles, and photographed him at the top.

The skeleton of the pad of a prickly pear cactus has perhaps 50 layers of mesh. This is a close-up of one layer

I thought for today's Winged Wednesday I would contribute birds in flight. (LOL, I know it's Tuesday but I'll be away tonight and Wednesday) Great Egret Cinnamon Teal Barn Swallow Belted Kingfisher Audubon's Warbler (AKA Yellow-rumped Warbler). LOL, I was thinking I should clean my...

Red Harvester Ant I remember the title from my childhood, even though the cartoon "of Fox and Hounds" was created a decade before I was born. George the Fox tells Willoughby that the fox is on the other side of a rail fence, which is actually at the edge of a steep cliff. Willoughby's line...

I took my grandson to Bearazona Wildlife Park, Williams Arizona. Bobcat A big Raccoon

My contribution to today's Winged Wednesday is a smorgasbord of birds and bugs. This is a Katydid (Mexican Bush Katydid to be specific) There are about 250 species in North America and Mexico. Other common names are long-horned meadow grasshoppers, Bush katydids, and Meadow katydids. For the...

Windscorpions are not venomous but have a powerful bite. This youngster is one inch long half the size of an adult. They are classified in the arachnid family (spiders, scorpions, ticks, ). five photo stack

"Kendrick Peak or Kendrick Mountain is one of the highest peaks in the San Francisco volcanic field north of the city of Flagstaff in the U.S. State of Arizona and is located on the Coconino Plateau in Coconino County. " Wikipedia