Glad I took some flower photos last week…we had freezing temperatures last night…my garden’s looking kind of poorly…time to do fall cleanup… #EasternWashington #PNW #ColorADay #PinkMon #Gardening #FlowerPhotography #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Blossoms #WestCoastPhotography

California Scrub Jay foraging on the grounds of Fort Simcoe State Park…very vocal, multiple different calls, caches food… #BirdoftheDay #Blue #Jays #Corvidae #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #NaturePhotography

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, likely hatched in early summer 2026…tail feathers don’t yet show the rusty-red it’s named for… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #Brown #Hawks #Birds #Raptors #BirdPhotography #Birding #WestCoastPhotography #PNW

This Honey Locust gave us some great backyard color in the Yakima Valley this past week…October 2026 #ColorADay #OrangeSun ##StunDay #Fall #Autumn #Photography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Leaves #NaturePhotography

Some closeups of the neighborhood pigeon flock thanks to zoom…their favorite perch is a power line in our pasture… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #Pigeons&Doves #Birds #Pigeons #BirdWatching #Birdphotography #Photography

Snow Geese flying up leaving Canada Geese behind on a corn stubble field…winter 2026…Yakima Valley… #EasternWashington #Birds #Geese #BirdoftheDay #Ducks&GeeseinFlight #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #WestCoastPhotography #Photography

Smallest bird that breeds in the U.S. and Canada—Calliope Hummingbird… 3 inches long and weighs 2-3 grams…winters in Mexico and Central America… #EasternWashington #SmallBirdSaturday #Birds #GreenSat #ColorADay #Hummingbirds #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Juvenile European Starling perched on the tip of the Douglas Fir in our front yard at sunrise showing just a bit of iridescent green… #BirdoftheDay #Green #Birds #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #NaturePhotography I’m

Canada Geese dropped in on the neighborhood gravel pit pond for a brief rest…heard and saw them overhead so drive over for a few shots… #BirdPhotography #PNW #BirdoftheDay #Geese #Birds #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WildlifePhotography #TenMinutesFromHome

The northwest corner of the neighborhood gravel pit pond where I take a lot of photos… #Scapes #landscapes #RuralScenes #Water #Reflections #Trees #PNW #LandscapePhotography #Nature #TenMinutesFromHome #Photography #EasternWashington #WestCoastPhotography

Took these photos yesterday early in the morning of birds enjoying my garden patch of Sunflower seed heads…House Finch, Spotted Towhee, Goldfinch… #BirdoftheDay #GardenBirds #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Photography #Gardening #Finches #EasternWashington

Great Blue Heron…it flew over my house heading northeast so I left my garden project and drove over to its favorite hangout, the neighborhood gravel pit pond, for a few photos…easy birding… #BirdoftheDay #Waders #Herons #Birds #BirdPhotography #Birding #TenMinutesFromHome #PNW #WestCoastPhotography

The fish truck comes to town giving me one of my favorite excuses not to cook dinner… #HumansofBlueSky #People #PNW #UrbanGaze #Scapes #FoodTrucks #Monochrome #BlackNWhite #BnW #BlackandWhitePhotography

Western Meadowlark singing its flute-like spring song from the sagebrush at Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge… #BirdoftheDay #Crooners #Songbirds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Art #NaturePhotography #Birds #Nature #Photography #BirdsofBlueSky #PNW #EasternWashington #RuralScenes #BirdsOftheWorld

Orange color morph House Finch with a seed meal from my garden patch of Sunflowers…bird color has faded, flowers are dried seed heads, but enjoy the photo ops… #BirdoftheDay #Eating #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #gardening #Finches #BirdLife #GardenPhotography #Nature #WestCoastPhotography

The last red rose in my garden this year got a bit beat up by the wind so I salvaged it with some photo cropping…fortunately it’s wonderful fragrance wasn’t damaged… #RoseWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #Roses #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Flowers #PNW #GardenPhotography #Blossoms #FlowerPhotography

White-crowned Sparrows…the first one of the 2026 fall/winter season I’ve seen in our Yakima Valley yard…it was chilly #EasternWashington morning… #BirdoftheDay #Perched #Sparrows #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #Photography #Birding #BirdLife

Ring-necked Duck…you see a bit of the mostly-hidden chestnut-brown feathers at the front of its neck that it’s named for…Snake River, Hood Park, Burbank, Washington… #BirdoftheDay #BlueWater #Birds, #BirdPhotography #Ducks #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky

Canada Geese on the neighborhood gravel pit pond…they’re common, so easy to overlook, but give excellent action photo ops… #BirdoftheDay #UnsungBirds #Geese #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #ActionPhotography #Birding #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #GameBirds #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Great Blue Heron strikes a regal pose over Toppenish Creek in early fall color September 2026… #BirdoftheDay #BirdSupermodel #BirdPhotography #Birds #Herons #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdWatching #TalonTuesday #Photography #BirdsofBlueSky

A cluster of Garry Oaks left to grow naturally on the rugged part of the grounds at Fort Simcoe State Park that’s not irrigated or groomed…Rattlesnakes may be lurking… #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Parks #RuralScenes #EasternWashington #LandscapePhotography #Scapes #WestCoastPhotography

Lots of pink still left in my gardens…the Yakima Valley delivers great fall weather and long life gardens… #ColorADay #PinkMon #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerPhotography #GardenPhotography #BloomScrolling #WestCoastPhotography #Blossoms

It was a chilly, rainy spring morning when this Western Tanager showed up in my Yakima Valley backyard seeking shelter… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #BadWeather #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #Rain #WildlifePhotography #PNW

Male (yellow eyes) and female (brown eyes) Brewer’s Blackbirds…they tend to linger in the Yakima Valley during winter but not necessarily together… #BirdoftheDay #BlueSkies #Birds #BlueSkyMonday #Blackbirds #PNW #BirdPhotography #Photography #WestCoastPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Sunflower I grew from seed…it’s been roughed up by the wind…Goldfinch in faded winter color enjoying nearby seed heads… #EasternWashington #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Flowers #Birds #FlowerPhotography #PNW #BirdPhotography #Finches #Gardening #BloomScrolling

Steller’s Jay has a “Where the heck’s the peanuts?” look…it flew off but was back seconds after I was done refilling all the feeders so obviously was keeping an eye on me… #BirdoftheDay #Blue #Jays #Corvids #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #PNW

Juvenile Osprey, one of 3 on this nest, flexing wings and building confidence but not yet ready to fly…2026 hatch… #BirdoftheDay #WingsOpenNotFlying #BirdPhotography #Birds #BirdLife #WestCoastPhotography #Raptors #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky

Large expanse of parade ground grass in front of 19th Century Gothic style Officer Housing built 1856-59 at Fort Simcoe…now a Washington state park on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation… #ColorADay #GreenSat #Parks #Architecture #Photography #LandscapePhotography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Scapes

Wilson’s Snipe…they return to same nesting area for years…enjoy hearing the winnowing sound they make in flight to establish territory & attract a female… #EasternWashington #PNW #.WildlifePhotography #BirdoftheDay #LongBill #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #NaturePhotography #BirdWatchng

Lewis’s Woodpecker…spring/summer behaves as a flycatcher snagging insects mid-air…fall/wind diet feeds on seeds, fruit, acorns & caches food for winter….Fort Simcoe State Park… #BirdoftheDay #Black&Red #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Parks #Art