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Those are actually naturally there, coming up every year on each side of the approach trail. When picking the spot for the water hole, I placed it just behind those plants and with a background where I could still get some stars on new moon nights if I kept the camera open in the dark long after...

A few from Desolation Sound last week Black Oystercatcher Surf Scoter (first time I've ever been relatively close to one)

River otter near the Harmony Islands, BC

Pardon the redundant subject after my recent post, but after I cleaned out my small camera trapping pond on Wednesday, the bear returned within an hour of my departure for another bath. I still haven't set up the real camera and flashes for nocturnal visitors, but I think the daytime bear will...

In the past I've set my Wyze cam next to the nest and watched them feed and eventually fledge. That small cam is currently monitoring my watering hole that had another spa visit from a bear yesterday. I usually take the nest down in the winter after everything has migrated. Apparently a...

Hmmmm, with all this poop talk I'll have to check for regurgitated pellets under this roost. The owlet remained there for a couple hours after I photographed it this morning. When I found him at eye level, I stood there and waited until the rising sun finally illuminated his perch to get these...

For years, I've had a small 30+ gallon water hole that I placed at my cabin in Cle Elum set up as a camera trap for nocturnal visits where my camera and remote flashes will fire. I don't have it active during the daylight hours or I'd have a million pictures of birds, chipmunks and squirrels...

Playing around with some underexposed backlit bee and foxglove (digitalis) photos

Thanks, Scott. Spent some time watching a few Cedar Waxwings by the Couer d'Alene river last week on my way back from Montana. I've always seen them eat berries in the past, but these were flycatching.

Had a Pileated Woodpecker visit me in Cle elum last week And one of the resident Great Horned Owls working on cuticle care

Year round in Tacoma and Cle Elum

She's a keeper! That's excellent

Thanks, could say the same about your contributions, photos and particularly writing skills, going way back to the old WFF forum. You, Cabezon (and others- too many to mention) keep me returning and supporting this great forum.

Thought I'd share a few more from early March in Texas, this time with some active feeding. American Oystercatcher American Avocet Long Billed Curlew Snowy Egret

Purple Martins arrived overnight at their fabricated houses on the Gulf Coast (Rockport, TX) while I was there in early March. They'll have to evict a couple House Sparrows that had taken up residence while they were away. Looking forward to their arrival in WA this summer. This is the first...