… Terry Steele, Spring – 2022

After several years of doing very little kitchen window bird photography, I got the bug when a male downy woodpecker kept coming into our diseased corkscrew willow tree.

I would have liked to have a few more exotic birds come in, but you take what you get. I decided to limit the shoot to birds that arrived by the end of May. I just have too many yard, garden and orchard chores as summer begins.  The unusual mix of warm days followed by cold and late snowfalls left us with fewer numbers of birds than we’d normally expect. On the other hand, weather fallouts provided good opportunities to photograph many species right out the kitchen window.

The images below follow the season as it  happened, with budding trees followed by late snowfalls into May.

 

In times past, the following birds were also photographed in view of the kitchen window.

Anna’s Hummingbird seems to be expanding its territory in eastern Oregon. These images were take in mid-August one year.