Thursday's postcard, and those quick things with yellow wings

May 25, 2023

Natural mural of lichens on basalt wall at Towell Falls (Rock Creek) in rural Whitman County

Flashes of Gold

I have no science to back it up, but my hunch is that critters with yellow in their wardrobes are more elusive, evasive, and more difficult to photograph. I could write more about this half-baked theory, but I’ll just turn things over to the camera, at least for now…

Flexing Western Kingbird

Yellow warbler on the rocks

Streamside swallowtail

Diving male Bullock’s oriole

Yellow warbler, briefly posing

Yellow-headed blackbird, calling from a pond-side perch

Warbler on top

Western kingbirds at a brief perch near Sprague Lake

Western meadowlark

Female Bullock’s oriole

Warbler in full warble