Nice one Mary! I love the expression on its face. I don’t exactly know why, but I do 😄

Super cute! Smaller than a teacup you say? I always wonder which bird species have occupied all the various tiny nests I see after the foliage clears. I’ve never photographed anyone occupying one though like this. 🪺

Gorgeous! When they are against lush greenery like that it really makes that Indigo POP! 🤩 I love that the females get in on the indigo game as well, even if slightly duller. It’s still stunning especially since it gets extra accents of other colours.

Haha, this is one of the biggest joys in birding for me. I LOVE seeing cool birds just as much as slowly learning enough about them to figure out where and how to see them, and eventually follow through on a plan. 😀

I’m disgusted by this post. DISGUSTED I SAY! 😜 Why? Because I want to see one a lot. 😄 I believe all of my children have seen them, I apparantely am the cheese standing alone. Ok, back you *YOU*. Beautiful photo! It actually is nice to see even if not in person for me.

I am actually shocked by the colour!! SO much brighter and more vivid that I ever imagined. 😲

Awesome photo 😀 I swear that their heads have an antifocus coating on them. That is definitely a bird I would love to see more of.

WOW 🤩 Consider my tri-coloured with envy! It’s a little trippy seeing a Heron with so much colour like that.

It’s nice to see both of those. Flowers are still scarce here, but I’m excited to see them soon. This is a good reminder for me to quite literally stop and “photograph” the flowers! I love seeing the giant bumble bees buzzing around even if I’m still a bit scared (irrationally I know).

OMG, that never occured to me, but of course that would add to the challenge!

I’m happy to see both of you! :-) Look, I still may go dark for periods of time, but I absolutely love my nature friends, and even more important, I love sharing what’s going on in nature around me. 😊

Nice one Glen 🤩 Perfect lighting for it. Their head always gets a bit washed out for me, but you literally nailed it bill to tail 😄

Pretty good. Was knocked out of birding for basically a year, but I’m back at it now! 👍 Here’s an article about my stay at the hospital where I was laid up at and had spinal surgery at following the utter collapse of my lower vertebrae while birding! www.hscfoundation.mb.ca/stories/a-ne...

Amazing. My interactions with them have always been at great distances and usually with them moving swiftly through the sky.

Mike, is this a juvenile or an adult? In as many photos of these awesome raptors as I’ve taken, this really beautiful angle/perspective on it is like looking at a whole new bird. I love it! I’m staring at details I’ve never seen quite like this before. 😃

The lady butter butts are showing up the boys by a large marg(ar)in, hence why lack photos of the butter boys 😄

My life’s work is to find one that doesn’t 😂

They always sing/call over their left shoulder. Seriously. I’ll wait while you check your photos. 🧐 Ok, maybe you knew this already, but it blew my mind four or five years ago when a friend told me this. I scoured thousands of my photos of them to prove him wrong. I failed. 😄

Oh Janet, as I take breaks from social media and then start dabbling again, you’re always here to represent the prairies and make me smile!!!