Message from Marv Breece
The purpose of my pbase site is to share images that I believe may be of interest to others. I am a bird watcher who often carries a camera. The bird watching is primary, and if I see a reason to take a photo, well then I try to. You are not likely to find calendar quality images on this site. Others take far better pictures that I do. Yet I hope that some of the images you find here will be of interest to you.
Most photos are arranged in taxonomic order. (It’s an older order, but I am too lazy to change.) The number in each photo title is there only to help me keep photos in order. If you are looking for an image of a specific Washington bird, if it’s on the site, you shouldn’t have to search too hard to locate it. I usually have a gallery of new photos, and sometimes galleries for special themes.
I take photos of birds for documentation purposes. Also when birds are doing unusual things, or interacting with each other. Anything that one is not likely to have seen in the field. I once watched a Great Blue Heron walking along a pond edge as I sat quietly in my car. The bird stopped. Then while keeping its head and body perfectly still, it began to swing its neck side to side. And in a flash it struck the ground and came up with a snake. No camera.
Below are links to birding experiences I have enjoyed when I DID have a camera. They are in no particular order. I hope you enjoy them.
Young Northern Harrier chasing 2 young Peregrine Falcons
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/83489586
Western Kingbird harassing a young Great Horned Owl
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/65550434
Ring-necked Pheasants perched on wires
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/106475072
A Merlin taking a dust bath
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/100792020
Comparison image of both yellowlegs and Stilt Sandpiper
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/68970114
Buff-breasted Sandpiper with a dirt clod stuck to its foot
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/84873725
One of a group of White-faced Ibis looking the wrong way
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/112687397
An in-flight Merlin prey exchange
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/98447851
Common Terns w/ a Forster’s Tern and Bonaparte’s Gulls
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/70117290
A female Merlin saying “I’m ready”
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/98447847
Greater and Lesser Scaup males for comparison
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/96904798
Male and female American and Eurasian Wigeons
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/94345142
Surfbird and Black Turnstone mixing it up
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/70117265
How to pick a Bar-tailed Godwit out of a flock of in-flight Marbled Godwits
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/83223743
American Golden-Plover and Pacific Golden-Plover for comparison
http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/104245265
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