Atlantic Puffin: In Color

What?! There's no Atlantic Puffin here!

For now.

This has been the day from H - e - double-toothpick, so I'm putting a placeholder here at 10:45 p.m. so I can fall into bed and get some sleep.

Yes, I know, I'm cheating... but I did say I could change the rules any time I wanted, right?

Chestnut-backed Chickadee: In Color

Cooper's Hawk: In Color

Northern Cardinal: In Color

Buteo regalis: Ferruginous Hawk

Bit of an experiment today, with the white on black... only marginally successful, but an interesting project. (And hey, if you can't experiment on your blog, where can you?)

The Ferruginous Hawk is large (eagle-sized) American hawk. They can summer around this neck of the woods, but live year-round in the Southwest.

Doodled from an image posted at Wikipedia.

On the first day of Christmas...

... a partridge, but not in a pear tree.


Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that.

Doodled from the entry for red-legged partridge at Wikipedia.

Sialia sialis: Eastern Bluebird

I finally figured out a holiday card... would have been a Christmas card, but guess who just couldn't get her act together until now? So New Year's it is... hey, the New Year is still a holiday.

It's an Eastern Bluebird, or in my world, the bluebird of happiness (notice the smile).

Whee!