Editor’s Note:
Keith Olson’s photos, often featured in the NESTER, are centered in the Olson’s backyard WILDERNESS RESERVE. In this post Keith takes her camera on the road! She snaps these fabulous photos during hers and Jerry’s travels through several years to different places in America. AVIANS ACROSS AMERICA I groups the birds by habitat and activity rather than geography.
Places Jerry and Keith visit include: Outer Banks, North Carolina; The Gulf States, Mississippi; Yellowstone Park in Wyoming; San Diegos Wild Animal Park; Morro Bay & Hearst Castle in California; Corvallis, Oregon; Northwest Washington’s Cascade Mountains; Dewitt’s Holsteins in British Columbia.
Tim
AVIANS IN FLIGHT
Bird of the sky,
How does it feel to dart and fly,
How does it feel to soar all day
“Over the hills and far away”?
Annette Wynne
”Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where the flight will take them.”
– Mark Nepo
AVIANS' VIEW
If you take a bird’s eye view, you get a different perspective.
AVIANS IN THE WATER
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.
Rachel Carson
if only we were
birds
of a feather
Firdraus Perez
AVIANS ON THE SHORE
Each day has a story to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
Eduardo Galeano
“A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium—a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.”
– Charley Harper
CREDITS:
Photographer: Keith Olson
Graphic Designer: Tim Olson
Editors: Lorelie & Tim Olson
To view Keith’s previous post, BEES -WILDLIFE IN THE GARDEN – click here
