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Tag: Garden Birds

How do Woodpeckers Peck Without Damaging Their Brains?

Woodpeckers have special foam linings in their skulls that cushion their brains, right? WRONG. This onetime ornithological hypothesis has become … More

2019, An ArthurPix® Photo, Beloved, Copyright © Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Donny, Downy Woodpecker, Garden Birds, Songbird, Summer

Back to the Nest

For some reason I never posted this portrait of Auric the American Goldfinch in flight… I shot this last summer … More

American Goldfinch, An ArthurPix® Photo, Auric, Beloved, Birds in Flight, Copyright © Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Garden Birds, Nature

Meet Tonto Two-Tuft

This striking young Northern Cardinal… …seems to be keeping company with the lovely Princess Goldie, hiding in the brush as she feeds … More

2018, Beloved, Birds, Cardinal, Copyright © ArthurPix™ Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Female, Garden Birds, Male, molting, Nature, Princess Goldie, Summer, Tonto, Wildlife

Busting the Blue Jay Myth

How America’s most legendary bird painter did a centuries-old injustice to one of our most beautiful birds Buster, my Blue Jay … More

Audubon, Bird Myths, Blue, Blue Jay, Garden Birds, Nature, Songbirds, Wildlife

Cardinalette II of the Day

Carlina is another pink and peach adolescent, photographed just a few days ago… And, from the state of her plumage, … More

Bird, Cooyright © ArthurPix™ Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Garden Birds, Juvenile, Nature, Northern Cardinal, Sony a7rIII, Wildlife
White-Breasted Nuthatch Pointing Earthward

Right Side Up

 Excuse me, sir—is your beak pointing down? If you, gentle reader, were dressed as a Nuthatch, I’m pretty sure your … More

20!8, Beloved, Bird, Copyright © ArthurPix™ Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Garden Birds, Nature, Summer, Wendell, White-Breasted Nuthatch, Wildlife
Male Cardinal

Mr. Peekaboo

You’re checking me out through the corner of your eye, young Mr. Carson Cardinal, so why can’t you come out … More

2018, Bird, Cardinal, Garden Birds, Nature, Northen Cardinal, Summer, Wildlife
Red-Winged Blackbird, Male in Mating plumage.

Lecturing Don

If you had a black silk doctoral robe with red epaulets, wouldn’t you wear it? At least when lecturing or … More

2018, Birds, Black, Copyright © ArthurPix™ Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Garden Birds, Nature, Red, Red-Winged Blackbird, Summer, Wildlife
Male Cowbird

Don’t hate me before you read this…

My name is Moe, short for Molothrus ater, and I held still, for a bird anyhow, so the photographer could fire … More

2018, Birds, Cowbird, Garden Birds, LEA3 adapter, Moe, Molothrus ater, Nature, Sony a7rIII, Summer, Tamron 150-600mm for Sony A-Mount, Wildlife

Life is best lived upside-down

“Never fly when you can creep,” says Wendell the White-Breasted Nuthatch. He may walk to a different drummer, but man … More

2018, Beloved, Birds, Copyright © ArthurPix™ Arthur P. Johnson All Rights Reserved, Garden Birds, Nature, Spring, Wendell, White-Breasted Nuthatch, Wildlife

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