Bloggers of Nature, Bird, Landscape Photography. Click on Links

Andrew of “All Downhill From Here” is a top quality bird and nature photographer. He and his wife live in Hong Kong. He is an excellent writer and is humorous as well. A really nice person and a wonderful blogging friend. Andrew 57 is his handle on Flickr. Blog is
http://ajh57.wordpress.com/

Just Rod of “Reflections in Puddles” has some beautiful pics of the Bohemian waxing which is one beautiful bird. Lots of wonderful nature photos as well. All are really good and you can find wonderful scenes taken in Mexico as well. The waxwings are in a recent post. You can find Rod here: http://reflectionsinpuddles.com/ Rod is very kind and a truly nice blogging friend of mine. He and his wife live in Canada.

Then a Texas blogging friend (lives up the road a piece 🙂 that posts via Blogger lives in northeasterly Texas. Her blog is titled “The Run “A” Round Ranch Report.” Lots and lots of birds pics and I think all of her bird photos were taken on the property which she and her husband own and where they reside. She also has many nature scenes and of the general countryside of her area. You can find Theresa at http://www.run-a-roundranch.blogspot.com/

“The Backdoor Artist” http://thebackdoorartist.com/ Mary Livingston
“The Forester Artist” http://theforesterartist.com/ Tim Livingston

The Livingsgton’s are a husband and wife team of really fine artists. They are both very nice people who are passionate about nature, birds, and their Golden Retrievers. Be sure to check these lovely people out as well.

Steve Gingold Photography: An extremely talented photographer who has marvelous monotone and color photographs of landscape and nature. He and his wife live in Northeast, USA
http://sggphoto.wordpress.com/
http://stephengingoldphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Landscape/G0000RD78mGTOW5Q/I0000OvbSgqjnosE

Mike Hardisty is also an extremely talented photographer of landscapes. Uses HDR techniques. He and his wife live in Wales.
http://mikehardisty.wordpress.com/

K. Carver photographs mostly birds. I am not familiar with him since he is not a blogger but his work is NatGeo quality. His link was suggested by Steve Gingold
http://krcarver.zenfolio.com/

There are many more nature and bird blogs but these are some that I like because I like the bloggers and they all have very good blogs. I don’t know any of them personally but through their blogs and writings I get good vibes which gives me the feeling that all of them are truly real and nice people. Real to me means no pretense, honesty and, compassion.

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Migrants (winter-spring) and Resident Birds.

These shots do not compare with Andrew’s photography of “All Down Here From Here.” See Andrew’s marvelous nature and bird shots and enjoy his remarkable sense of humor/humour at http://ajh57.wordpress.com/

These were shot with a 200mm lens and that is “all I can do for now.” I am not overly fond of these and I am sort of limited. 🙂 I find that I am always apologizing and I am sorry that I can’t stop my pea size brain, beady little eyes, and gnarled fingers from thinking, seeing, and tapping/talking. 🙂

Mockingbird> State bird of Texas. A virtual band unto itself. Able to imitate so many sounds, even musical instruments.My yard birds,however, are not fine musicians. Lots of other bird imitations though. This bird’s wings are drooping for this day it had been well over 100 F. This is a repeat image posting.

Carolina Wren is a resident bird. For non-birders that means year around. I looove this little bird. It often nests in a hoya in a basket that hangs on the back stoop I hear it singing almost everyday-even in the winter. Biologists say the life span of the Carolina is about one year. It is simply vunerable to many hazzards.

Cedar Waxwing-migratory winder resident. I stood on my little electric cart to get these pics. They initially flew away when I drove to the holly but they returned about 3 minutes later. Those red berries were too enticing.

Cedar Waxwing The bird and I exchanged a knowing glance. 🙂 I wondered if this one was the sentry for the flock.

a flock of 30 birds or so devoured the berries of this native yuopon holly in about 30 minutes. Greedy beauties. They were soundless as they alit, refueled and, flew away.

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Winter Sunsets

The lake is not far from my house. If I want a decent pic with no power lines- the lake is the place. I can quickly get there when I notice the infrequent gorgeous sunset colors. Don’t look too closely for some of the pics are not level. I did not use a tripod for it is too much trouble to drag along when time is not on one’s side during the color changes of a really good sunset. So, with no further apologies, here are a few that I grabbed back in the winter.

These colors have not been edited. Just my little ole canon’s view

Sun is almost beyond the horizon

Sunset of a different day- cold front or rain predicated or both. :-

Brilliant colors prior to a weather change

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Soldier and His Rescued Afghan Cat. Happy Ending But You Might Shed a Tear

Please click the link which takes you to this wonderful story. I know that I am posting other writer’s stories of late but these are too good not to pass them on to you guys/readers/subscribers/lurkers. Oh well. I know not how to refer to those of you that have been so faithful to read my postings.

Soldier and Cat Save Each Other in Afghanistan
By Caroline Golon

http://halopets.com/freekibble/donation95.html

Spring Has Sprung in Central Texas

a view from the driveway. Mexican plum in bloom

Non-native young fruit and buds of the Pomegrante which is a tree a helper dug from my in-laws estate in the 70’s. Early leaves are a gorgeous reddish color and the blooms are beautiful. The fruit tastes awful

Eve’s necklace: native, drought tolerant, understory tree.

Rusty Blackhaw Virbunum, native. Understory or full sun- fairly rare. Beautiful new leaves in spring with good fall color.”

[caption id="attachment_4528" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Tiny fruit of an unknown native grape variety. Pretty in the spring as if in bloom. Male grape as it never produce any grapes. I need to research that

Immature spring fruit of American Beautyberry. Birds enjoy the fruit of this easy to grow native.

Newly formed fruit of the Elbow Bush. In late April-May the fruit ripens to a dark blue and is soon eaten by the birds. Easy to grow native. Survives severe drought (in my yard. Often grows as an understory small shrub.

Immature figs of Brown Turkey variety. Birds eat most of the ripe figs

I have photos of a more spring blooms but these will suffice for now. Getting these pix into this post has been nothing short of a minor miracle. A long and tiring job. I have not posted a group pf photos in a while. I tried to get these to work as a slideshow but I had no cooperation from my brain to the media gallery of WP. I will have to look that up someplace as it seems I’ve forgotten how. Ticks me off- a lot!

An Article From “The Dogster” The Daily Scoop ( this is a good one)

Click the link at the bottom to read the story.

I subscribe to The Dogster and often the online magazine has tremendous stories. I loved this one. But I didn’t like the disapproval of the woman condemning the person who paid 6G to save the family dog that will add two more years to its life.

My question to the criticizing woman is, do you give to a charity, how much did you spend on your vacation, your clothes for the year, how many trips did you make, did you need your big screen TV, iphone, and all your fancy clothes?

Click the link below and read the article. It is a good one.

http://www.dogster.com/the-scoop/would-you-pay-6000-save-an-elderly-dog

~yvonne~