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To capture such beautiful photographs, Autumn Sasala only uses his iphone and a macro camera Squidcam. Early in the morning, he captures delicate images of dewdrops deposited on the fluffy seeds of a Dandelion. The colors of dawn, from pale blue to pink add to these photographs an extremely poetic softness and poetic atmosphere.

I was watching this Oregon Junko and noticed a seed nearby, glad he did too!

House Finch Shucking A Seed.

Red Winged Black Bird Stopped By. Actually our place has been a hot spot lately with the sunflower seeds ripe and the pond to drink from. The small apples are even ripe for the picking.

Sparrow Birds Working For Their Meal . I admit, it is ridiculous the money we spend on the wildlife here. The gardens and such to attract the wildlife so I can photograph them. I justify this expense as entertainment, for really Guy and I can sit for hours just talking and watching all the wildlife we work so hard to attract to our place. We stopped in at the Madras Livestock Auction where they opened up a feed store. We need bird seed in big time bulk. The sparrows are the main birds we feed here, but without the sparrows the other birds would not be attracted. As soon as we walked into the feed store we saw this seedblock. We thought this would slow down the birds a little, making them work for their meal. It has, and offered me a great photography opportunity! We are more than happy to try out such products if, and I mean if, it is cost affective!

I found this Mountain Chickadee watching the horses and I from one of the trees. Several chickadee species are out, this one has the stripes. They eat bugs and seeds and I find they are often with other birds. Cute little guys!! If you would like to hear what this bird sounds like there is a great voice capture at the " allaboutbirds.org " site.

I told my birds as I was taking care of them, cleaning water bowls , food bowls that if they were not going to eat their seed, I could find someone else to eat them real easy! The junkos showed up for this treat!

Meet the Sweat Bee. Rather pretty in color with the fluorescent green dont you think? The flower the Sweat Bee is feeding on is a wild Strawberry plant that just started growing on it's own. No doubt the seeds coming from the birds?

As I was sitting in my spot watching the birds,butterflies,bees just enjoying the nice weather we have here in the high desert of Oregon I looked over to one of our ponds and seen the swimming young frogs wanting their piece of bread. Well, I can not just feed them one day and not the other right?

White Rimmed Multi Colored Pansy. This is another one I hand pollinated last year, along with my blue rimmed multi colored pansy. A hint of blue is in this ones rim.