Birds of Red, Orange & Yellow
My last post showcased a few November autumn captures at Lake Greenwood. Here are the resident birds of red, orange and yellow I captured as well. Those photographed in the trees offered loads of fall background color-splash.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Pine Warbler
Pine Warbler
The Northern Flicker in flight flashes lots of yellow on his underside wings and tail as he approaches a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker on the tree.
Northern Flicker (left) and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (on tree)
Northern Flicker
The Northern Cardinal is one of my favorite birds, and I had an awesome time photographing them. It wasn’t easy to post just this few! 🙂
Female Northern Cardinal
Male Northern Cardinal
Male Northern Cardinal
Female Northern Cardinal
Female Northern Cardinal
These, of course, weren’t the only birds at the lake during our November visit. In my next post, some of the others get to show-off their beauty!
Love the male cardinal in all those gorgeous red leaves!
Thanks so much, it’s as if he played hide-n-seek with me. 🙂
Especially love the shots of the red cardinals and red leaves Donna!
Thanks so much, Steve! I’m back in Maryland and Delaware for the holidays. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I’ve seen some posts on Conowingo and the Eagles, and I always think of you then, did you make it up there this fall? I hope so!
Beautiful, Donna! We have plenty of cardinals and a few northern flickers, but I haven’t seen pine warblers here on Kent Island where I live. Thanks, as always, for sharing!
Thanks so much, Susan, and your welcome! I did see a pine warbler one fall a few years ago over at CBEC, but that was the only time around the area. 🙂
They are all really great images. The orange foliage with the yellow birds was something, but the Cardinals! I LOVE those!!
You know we don’t have them out here in NO. California.
Hope you’re having a wonderful Holiday! xx
Thanks so much, Deborah! Red is my favorite color and cardinals have always been a favorite, even more so now with the saying “when a cardinal appears, an angel is near”. Just warms my heart! 🙂 Having a great Holiday, hope yours is just as wonderful! Those grandkids make it extra special, don’t they?!!
They surely do! xx
Great shots Donna! 🙂
Thanks, HJ! 🙂
Exceptional captures, Donna! Pine Warblers in the fall – wow. And to get the golden shafts of the Flicker!
Thanks so much, Lisa! That little Pine Warbler played peak-a-boo with me for about 30 minutes. Doesn’t he look like he’s teasing me?!!! lol 🙂
Beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much and you are welcome!
Love the colours! I can see you had a good day!
Thanks so much, Jane, it was a good day! 🙂
Great photos of all the birds!
Thanks, Jerry!
Wow! Beautiful colors and birds!
Thanks so much, Sheila! Autumn is such a pretty time. 🙂
Dear Donna, they are so beautiful, especially number 2 and 4 fascinated me. Thank you, Love, nia
Thanks so much, Nia, and you’re welcome! I always have a wonderful time photographing birds like you do with cats. 🙂
Beautiful little birds Donna. I love the colours of the foliage behind the Pine Warbler and Cardinal. The Flicker is an interesting bird I am not acquanted with. A beautiful collection all round my friend!
Thanks so much, Ashley! The photos don’t show much of the Flicker’s crown, but he has a red ‘cap’ at the back of his head. But he’s a beauty in flight when he flashes his underside yellow. 🙂
Gorgeous light.
Thanks so much, Tom! It seemed I was out more in the late afternoon so that golden light was a plus. 🙂
Good photographers are often lucky with the light for some reason. 🙂
Thanks Tom! I show my lucky ones but confess I dump 10X more that are poor in lighting. 🙂
Don’t we all.
Masterful images, Donna! The backgrounds you chose are uncommon and impressive, and yet all the birds came out beautifully.
Thanks so much, Hien! I have to thank Mother Nature for the backgrounds. 🙂
Beautiful captures, Donna! How do you remember the names of these birds? We’ve been spotting a lot many different birds on our trips, but it’s hard to put a name to them. 😦
Thanks so much! I started photographing birds a few years ago and found how exciting it was to see a ‘new’ species, thereby researching to find out what the names of the new ones. 🙂 It’s been a fun hobby. Even my husband can name birds and he’s not a photographer or a ‘birder’, lol. I guess I kinda rubbed off on him my babble of birds! I still photograph and learn new ones all the time. 🙂
So pretty! Love the red cardinal by the red leaves. 🙂
Thanks Pam! I think he was hiding, doing that ‘blending in’ thing! 🙂
I really like how you captured the birds on the complementary backgrounds. Beautiful.
Thanks Donna! Mother Nature’s to be complimented for the backgrounds! 🙂
What utterly delightful captures of these marvelous birds. If your warblers are anything like ours… never holding still for more than a split second, you have far more patience than I do!
Thanks Gunta, when I have the time with little birds, patience is my middle name. 😉 And still, it is so hard! They kept their eye on me, but I think they didn’t mind me so much for once. 🙂
Loved the matching colors of birds and surroundings! Beautiful post!
Thanks Helen! Those backgrounds provided some great hide-n-seek games for me and the birds. 🙂
Brilliant, I’m not at all jealous (much) 🙂 Brian.
Thanks Brian! You can’t be, your photography is spectacular! 🙂