Catching up with some photos from last month, starting with a couple of male American goldfinches. The first fellow is puffing his beautiful breeding plumage, which has grown in nicely.
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This second male goldfinch is far behind in the plumage race and will probably not catch up fully, as many males maintain a grey back of the head through the summer. I imagine that this limits his breeding opportunities but can't say for certain.
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A male Baltimore oriole in our backyard. These are beautiful birds that we attract by putting out orange slices or grape jam.
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This male red-breasted woodpecker is the king of the feeder food chain. This somewhat deceptively-named bird (the "red" in the name is the slightly reddish-orange tint you can see on his lower front) is not intimidated by any bird short of a hawk. This guy (and the females too) intimidate blue jays, grackles, starlings, and even the very aggressive red-winged blackbird: nobody want to mess with a bill and skull structure that easily penetrates solid wood!
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This is a double-crested cormorant that I photographed swimming in the Cape Cod Canal. The late afternoon sun lit his face and his very cool-looking eye. I still have to process a set of photos where he was catching and eating an eel.
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