SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > elk in velvet at Yellowstone 

    The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > Stained glass butterfly 
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  And everyone deserves a little sunshine.  ~Jeffrey Glassberg

The sunlight backlit this butterfly beautifully, It looked electric to me and I was very excited to get at least one passable image of its beauty,
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > Red-Tail Hawk spots his prey 
“When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.”
Marv Levy 

Just two days after my last sighting of a red -tail hawk I saw another who was not spooked by my close presence.  Here he is looking for prey and this was the last bit of memory on my card.

He swooped down quicker than a flash and nailed a mole, spotting him from about hundred feet away.  I rushed as quick as I could to put in another card.  And did get a shot of him holding the prey before he quickly ate it.

This may have been the same hawk from a few days before, and was not threatened by my presence.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > cattle egret 
The Cattle Egret is native to Africa and Asia, and only reached the Americas in the late 19th century. It was first found in northeastern South America in 1877, having probably arrived there from Africa. It reached the United States in 1941, and started nesting by 1953. In the next 50 years it became one of the most abundant of the North American herons. It has occurred all the way to Alaska and Newfoundland, and has bred in nearly all states.

From:  www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Cattle_Egre...
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > Red-Tail Hawk with Prey 
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > come sit by me 
“If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!”

 Shel Silverstein  (American poet, cartoonist and composer best known in children's literature for his poetry, 1930-1999)

I sat with this frog for quite a while, hoping that a fly would come with the idea of photographing him catch a fly.  After a good bit, I moved my foot and he jumped away.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > for those who wait 
Time is too slow for those who wait; Too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > Cardinal Rules 
In 1950, the General Assembly chose the northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) as the state bird because of its bright plumage and cheerful song. In eighteenth-century England, the cardinal was called "the Virginia nightingale." The cardinal is part of the finch family.

The northern cardinal is also the state bird for six other states. These are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.
From:  www.shgresources.com/va/symbols/bird/
SmugMug > all-time keyword > specanimal > cattle egret 
The Cattle Egret is native to Africa and Asia, and only reached the Americas in the late 19th century. It was first found in northeastern South America in 1877, having probably arrived there from Africa. It reached the United States in 1941, and started nesting by 1953. In the next 50 years it became one of the most abundant of the North American herons. It has occurred all the way to Alaska and Newfoundland, and has bred in nearly all states.

From:  www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Cattle_Egre...
elk in velvet at Yellowstone

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
 > elk in velvet at Yellowstone 

    The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
elk in velvet at Yellowstone

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
Photo by: RobertMillerPhotography • see photo in gallery

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