Swallowtail Butterfly On The Orange Lily Flower
Previous Next Our Lily flowers got a visitor! This Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly! I think the Swallowtails come to the Lily patch for drinks myself! Even though we try hard not to over head water the Lily flowers! Getting a drink is what this Swallowtail Butterfly looks like it is doing to me! The Yellow of […]
Mylitta Crescent Butterfly And Beatles
Previous Next This caught my attention while out and about on one of my walks here in town! This Mylitta Crescent Butterfly and these Beatles on this weed flower feeding. Of course having this many Beatles in one place may not be something this farmer wants to see on his valuable crops? However on the […]
Common Checkered Skipper Butterfly
Previous Next Meet again this Common Checkered Skipper Butterfly! This one is on one of our wildflowers that grow here in our part of the high desert of Oregon! Skipper Butterflies all have the same structure in appearance. All Skipper Butterflies kind of, “skip”, or “Flutter” about. My observations as for photographing the Skipper Butterflies […]
Curious Mule Deer Fawn
Previous Next Meet this Mule Deer Fawn who was so curious! The rest of the herd is on the other side of me, this fawn got separated from the group as I made my way through this area that was full of butterflies! Sometimes such things as this fawn are the critters I do run […]
Red-tailed Hawk In The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Red-tailed Hawk of The High Desert of Oregon! If you visit here and see a Hawk, this might just be the Hawk you see first? You may see the Red-tailed Hawk in a topped Juniper as this one is. Why the topped Juniper trees? The Red-tailed Hawks are not small birds, […]
American Goldfinch Fledgling
Previous Next Meet this American Goldfinch Fledgling. This one is older then the others I have shown in another post! This one has his color coming in. Not quite all the way yet, but we can identify him as a American Goldfinch. As with many places the American Goldfinch finds everything the bird needs here […]
Viceroy Butterfly In The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Viceroy Butterfly! Pretty Butterfly right? I learned of this Butterfly actually on facebook….. a wildlife place was posting the difference of the Viceroy Butterfly, and the Monarch Butterfly. I thought it looked familiar, as if I had photographed the Viceroy Butterfly before. Sure enough when I came upon this photo album […]
Checkered Skipper Butterfly In The High Desert
Previous Next Meet the Checkered Skipper Butterfly! This skipper Butterfly is a common Skipper here in our area. The area in which I was for these photographs is a marshy area. If you are not careful where you step you may get wet! This is part of a gully that we have here in our […]
High Desert Game Bird
Previous Next Meet these game birds found here in our town in the High Desert of Oregon! These birds are typically in this area every time I take a walk this way and every time they seam to make me jump even though I know they are there haha! Without looking at the photographs Guy, […]
Vivid Dancer Dragonfly Eating A Spider
Previous Next Meet the Vivid Dancer Dragonfly! I captured this one eating what I think is a spider!? Dragonflies are great helpers when it comes to controlling insects! I think I see wings there, so perhaps that is not a spider? This happening was not captured here at the house, but in a area I […]