Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Indian Hemp ~ "Hidden Treasures" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed "Happiness of the Bluebirds" captures

"Happiness of the Bluebirds" captures a pair of eastern bluebirds together — their cobalt backs and warm russet breasts glowing against soft botanical tones

Owls' specialized wing feathers have leading edges that break turbulence into micro-vortices

This roseate spoonbill original painting is exactly what its name promises — optimism made visible

White ibises are social

one of a kind

Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Indian Hemp ~ "Hidden Treasures" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed "Happiness of the Bluebirds" capturesYou hear a Common Yellowthroat long before you see one. That bright witchety witchety song comes out of the low brush, and then if you wait a small bird with a black bandit's mask darts up, all yellow throat and quick movement, and is gone again. I caught one of those moments here, the warbler half hidden among the Indian hemp, the way it really lives: tucked into the green, showing itself only for a second. That is what 'Hidden Treasures' is about.