Backyard Wildlife

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
 

Brown Thrasher

 

Cottontail

 

One doesn't have to travel long distances to photograph wildlife.  The photos in this post were taken around my home this week.

 

Wildlife Variety Show

An Autumn morning spent outdoors can be likened to a variety show.  For the wildlife enthusiast the show is not equaled by anything TV has to offer.

This years fawns are now half-sized copies of their mother yet they continue to enjoy short nursing sessions.  Weaning the fawns is a gradual process with some fawns continuing to nurse into December. 

The Ruby-crowned Kinglets are busy feeding as they pass through on their autumn migration.

An Eastern Towhee makes a rare appearance for a photo-op.  The Towhee, a year around resident, seldom  ventures out from the heavy underbrush.

Lifer: Ruby-crowned Kinglet

This morning found me watching a meadow at daybreak, hoping for a whitetail buck encounter.  Our local deer are beginning to enter into the early stages of the prerut with bucks becoming more active with each passing day.  However on this morning no bucks showed and my attention was drawn to a tiny bird flitting about a nearby multiflora rose.