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Male Vermilion Flycatcher

Five-lined Skink (Eumeces fasciatus: Scincidae) female. 13.0-20. 5 cm (5.1- 8.1 in) long, including tail. She looks rather gravid to me.

House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) males. The females were on their nests refurbished from old Cliff Swallow nests while the males foraged and hung out together playing oneupmanship.

At first, I hear his unique vocal call and then managed to get off a set of pictures but only one took out of seven. It was close-cropped but it was a decent photo. His or her call sounds like a hiccup. They are beautiful and I never hardly seen them. Interesting note, the Brown-headed...

"Wild" eastern cottontail in my neighbor's back yard. Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup...

A large juvenile bald eagle flying over my neighborhood with a lone crow constantly on its tail. Not the clearest shot but sharing because I think it does a great job of displaying scale; you look at this and, knowing that's a crow, think, that eagle is one large bird...

House sparrow enjoys the beach

A laughing gull watching the people on the boardwalk.

The face only a mother could love.

A Female Mountain Bluebird enjoying a soft hors d'oeuvre! :)

Dotted Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium pruinosum: Iridaceae).

Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus lineatus)

Have heard these guys drumming on TV antennas over the years, but it sounds like one found a cowbell across the road at my neighbor’s house! He wins.

The most tolerant GHO I have ever seen. What an amazing experience!

This field sparrow wasn't shy at all.

A northern mockingbird who is also a very good singer.

Red-tailed hawk flying over the house

Red-tailed hawk flying over the house

Starling on a wire in morning light

American Goldfinch coming into breeding plumage. Flash photograph. Manipulated to remove background OOF details.

Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth (Malacosoma disstria: Lasiocampidae). 5.0-6.4 cm (2.0- 2.5 in) long.

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis ibis) foraging with White-faced Herefords. The yellow flowers are buttercups (Ranunculus sp.).

Thanks for your kind words on my last photos

It was kind of a dreary November late day here in South Carolina so I was shooting at a low shutter speed even at 1250 ISO. This little Chickadee took flight just as I tripped the shutter, producing this amazing photo. I could not replicate this in a million years! The delineation of the wing...

A California Towhee forages in a grassy creek bed.