Splashy

My family has a sort of water park for birds in our backyard, and this morning it's had a few visitors:

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Shake those feathers!

Rinse and repeat

Orange-crowned Warbler wants a bath too!

The tiniest birdbath

Some birds bathe in puddles or basins-- hummingbirds wash their feathers in dewdrops:

After rain

Snowy Egret

Black-Crowned Night Heron

Floating algae

More egrets

Another swoops in...

Leading to a chase through a crowd of ducks

Portrait of a cormorant

Juvenile Great Blue Heron

Crayfish on land, raising its claws at me in a threat display

Tiny shelf fungus on a fallen log

Bluebird stretching

The nest of a Scaly-Breasted Munia-- I heard chirping from within the ball of pine needles

Droplets

Troubled waters

Rain and clouds

Turbulence

The patterns of mud swirling in this creek reminded me of the cloud bands of Jupiter-- and more tragically, of last year's Gulf oil spill.

Trees in a puddle

Inspired of course by M. C. Escher.