Steve Shinn: Great Blue Heron flying with fish prey, a Cormorant watches its meal fly away.
Steve Shinn: Great Blue Heron flying with wings skimming water, with fish lunch, "The happy heron"
Steve Shinn: Caspian Tern catching trout
Steve Shinn: American White Pelicans at Big Bear Lake, CA. Early morning grooming.
Steve Shinn: Costa's hummingbird and bee. The birds and the bees!
Steve Shinn: Costa's hummingbird and bee on Chuparosa flowers, Borrego Springs, CA, desert
Steve Shinn: White-faced Ibis at sunset
Steve Shinn: Cedar Waxwing with Chokecherries
Steve Shinn: The Pollinator. Allen's Hummingbird on native Autumn sage (Salvia greggii)
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird pollinating flowers (native Autumn sage, Salvia greggii)
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird checking out the bath
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird takes a cool bath
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird feeding chicks on nest
Steve Shinn: Allen's Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB; "I'm singin' in the rain..."
Steve Shinn: Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB gets the downpour, "Is that all you got???" i
Steve Shinn: Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB in light rain.
Steve Shinn: Rock wren eating a bee "Beereakfast?"
Steve Shinn: Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus, portrait, Anza Borrego desert
Steve Shinn: Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus running with prey, a Kangaroo rat?
Steve Shinn: Costas Hummingbird on Chuparosa
Steve Shinn: Snowy Egret on a very cold morning. Where's my darned COFFEE!!"
Steve Shinn: Nuttall's Woodpecker with a mouthful of insects
Steve Shinn: Nuttall's Woodpecker with a mouthful of Earwigs and other insects. "Got Earwigs?"
Steve Shinn: Nuttall's Woodpecker, adult male feeding chick.
Steve Shinn: Nuttall's Woodpecker, male feeding chick.
Steve Shinn: Tree Swallow feeding young on nest.
Steve Shinn: Red-winged Blackbird, backlighting from setting sun
Steve Shinn: Red-winged Blackbird. Showing epaulets with a "song spread display" to attract mates and defend territory. Note, this one appears to be more of the "bicolor" variaton found here in SoCal.
Steve Shinn: Red-winged Blackbirds fighting. Please see more of this sequence at http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=976305