Cool birds

white peregrin falcon

"distinct style": junk mail collage. Want music? Click here for Peter Frampton, Baby I Love Your Way. then click back on this blog tab or here to listen as you browse, or not? I've been playing in two unfinished journals. Off and on, I need to head there when I am in pandemic limbo. I decided to post a few pages, pretty messy but fun? One journal has irregular size pages of all kinds of papers. Old photos, junk mail, drawing ... anything goes. Lots of empty pages, room to play. I rarely so…

With golden plumage, a tiny beak obscured by fluff and huge round eyes, the great eared nightjar looks like a plump little dragon hatchling.

Rebaz T.Hamad is a photographer who has an affinity for wildlife and nature, especially colorful birds. He captures unique personalities of birds through a series of close up natural portraits, with the goal to portray birds in a way that displays their incredible beauty and diversity, which reminds us that it's our responsibility to ensure they will always have a home in the wild.

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It was hot during midday on our last jaguar photo tour, so many bird species would come to the little fountain in front of our lodge to bathe in the cool water. One of the most conspicuous one was the Chestnut-eared Araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis), a super-attractive member of the toucan family (Ramphastidae). I like how its feathers are just soaking wet, as if lacquered.