A Sharp-shinned Hawk in my yard.

A Blue Jay preparing to land at the bird feeder.

November was a busy month but I still managed to get some nice bird photos. This Sharpie has been keeping the little birds nervous all winter.

Alright. It’s cold, windy, & gloomy outside and I don’t have anything new that’s worth uploading.
Let’s have another look at 2007 and a bunch of photos I never got around to posting…

Aside from Christmas, all I can remember about December 2007 is alot of ice & fog. How many ice storms were there ? Five or six ? I lost count.

Ice encrusted honeysuckle berries.

A very foggy morning at Mile Hill Lake.

An Eastern Meadowlark contemplates jumping into the snow…

… and then takes the plunge. The temperature was several degrees below zero when I shot these yesterday morning.

You can clearly see the red belly color in this photo of a Red-bellied woodpecker that I shot early this morning. Often the belly color is little more than a pinkish hue and is difficult to see.

A shot of my 20D & Sigma 80-400 EX OS lens from inside the blind looking out.

A Red-bellied woodpecker snatches up a peanut from the bird feeder. I shot this one from my blind.

The fruit of an Eastern Wahoo tree. I shot this one last Fall.

Looking down from the bluff at West Oak Forest in the Loess Hills near Glenwood.

I’ve been seeing a couple of eagles in the Malvern area over the last few weeks and I finally got close enough to one of them this morning for a few photos.

Rapid snow melt resulted in foggy conditions across parts of Mills county yesterday afternoon.

Powdery snow shining in the morning sun.

I’ve been wanting to get a shot of this old pump, but the background just did’nt work for me. Zero visibility solved the problem.

Tip of the Day: When it’s foggy, turn your automobile’s headlights on.

Tip of the Day for Old Farts in Pickups: When it’s foggy, stop at stop signs.

Spider update: I saw the wolf spider in the corner of my basement and a dozen babies were running loose. When I came back with the camera, she was nowhere in sight, but several babies were still there. As you can see from the earlier photo, it’s getting crowded on mom’s back.

An American Kestrel dines on a Dark-eyed Junco in front of my garage this afternoon.