Bird Story Photography By Kathleen Bailey

Locations — South Puget Sound

Nisqually NWR

tidal estuary · South Puget Sound · 20 frames

Location given as a general area only — never a nest or sensitive site.

  • Rufous Hummingbird female feeding her fledgling

  • Three Red-breasted Sapsuckers playing in Nisqually forest

  • Rufous Hummingbird male feeding at Salmonberry flower

  • Female Rufous Hummingbird looking for Salmonberry flower nectar

  • Male Yellow Warbler with insect for feeding fledgling

  • Brown-headed Cowbird fledgling being fed by male Northern Warbler

  • Yellow Warbler fledgling 4 days later

  • Female juvenile Hooded Merganser in a pond at Nisqually NWR.

  • Sibling Sapsuckers playing in trees

  • Adult male Northern Yellow Warbler looking for insects to feed fledling

  • Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler waiting for his father to feed him.

  • Rufous Hummingbird recently fledged at Nisqually NWR rests while waiting for Mom to come and feed him.

  • This marsh wren was singing cheerfully from the cattails along the water at Nisqually.

  • Fledgling Yellow Warbler watching out for father to feed him

  • Northern Yellow Warbler 4 Days older

  • Slightly more mature Yellow Warbler 4 days later

  • Fun in the forest!

  • Swainson's Thrush is often found on ripe Elderberry bushes

  • Tucked among the elderberry, where the ripening fruit will soon feed the southbound migration.

  • An elderberry in the bill — Swainson’s Thrushes eat insects, berries, and soft fruits.

Field notes from here