Born in a Barn? (pix)

OK.. for those who keep prompting for pix and more pix… heres the start of your weekly pix fix……

first I was born and raised in Iowa… and dont know if its the same everywhere but there everytime I left the door open I heard “Were you born in a barn?” from my parents…

I would have thought at least ONE of them would know the answer to that question!…. anyway… I think maybe I FOUND my birthplace…..

hmmmmmmmm….. look at that… the darn barn door is STILL open!!

a recent snow storm allowed me to take a few shots of the birds gathering around for a quick bit to eat…..

like lightning in a bottle.. these little fellows are hard to catch… a red breasted nuthatch taken a millisecond before launch (or is that lunch?)

braced against the wind a snow a chickadee clings to a branch for dear life….

a junco seeks refuge from the storm….

ok.. this one was BEFORE the storm… these guys are getting hungrier and hungrier… and now its easy to see a hundred or so on any trip around here, they are desperatly digging in the corn fields for food…..

here in a super close up a male purple finch turns his head slightly a nanosecond before the shudder clicked.. guess he though it wasnt his good side! or he didnt want his friends to see a shot of him “slumming”

winter is not only tough on the birds.. their houses take a beating as well… heres a bluebird fixer upper available cheap (or is that TWEET?)

Very nice pics Ken. You’ve done it again.

Gator Hunter

thanks Gatorhunter… the birdhouse shot just above actually took 6th place in a contest yesterday…..