Mark Robertson

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Aviangelist. English teacher. Apprentice to Jesus. Other stuff. They will also know us by our mirth.

The flaky flank of a tawny gray mesquite trunk, with white-gray little bird with black cap clinging to to one fleck of flaky bark, thickening shadows behind him
Also a young barney staring blisteringly into the camera, this guy on a rusty rounded trellis
Spiraling top of a lavender bud unfurling five elegant petals
Hey, good luck at this white dusty bird with a black eye stripe black cap and black neck on a thin sycamore stem in the shadows
Red-tailed hawk passing directly overhead, wings outstretched, wispy paint-sponge clouds above him
juvie barn swallow on a rusted arching trellis, white bits of downy fluff on shoulders and under wing. Midnight blue with flecks of turqoise on top and orangey peach on breast.
A little CA Gnatcatcher, heather-gray, with a cool eyebrow sounding forth from a thin stem in a chaos of brambles.
Barn swallows on the top of a round, rusty trellis. A splotchy sun, SUN i tell you, in the BG
A young cliff swallow peering out of his mud-brick hole.
Hey, how's finch and a spice finch perched together on a thin mossy stem with bokeh green in the background
A spindly, tufty, young gray bird, with a big medallion, like brown eye, perched on a branch
Close-up of an Osprey, white and brown with an arresting yellow eye, and bottle-opener hooked beak, peeking through a mess of sticks
A great egret, radiant, as he shrugs on a concrete settling pond fence with california scrublands stretched out behind him
Hey radiant blue male blue grosbeak with his feet called around the top of a chain linked fence that he is perched on
A radiant white faced ibus and breeding plumage, which means magenta, pink green accents of purple, even, sauntering through a storm channel
Handsome towhee all brown and fluffy, with orange underside and face mask in a bright amber colored eye, a top, an aluminum reservoir fence post
Cute fluffed up barn swallow on a wood post with a green background
Big white egret on the wall of some retention pond reservoir thing. Looks a little remorseful about his perch
Same bird on the same post, but this time he has his beak opened to utter a menacing but cracking pubescent hawkscream
Tawny breasted and mottled brown hawk staring down at camera menacingly, the waning moon setting behind him. He's perched on a typical mission bell-style lamppost in San Juan Capistrano, CA
A barn swallow zipping past a warbling american flag
Crisp in-flight snap of a very white killdeer, both wings straight up, vague greens and browns behind
Black chicken-sized bird that kind of looks like a glam coot standing on some broken reeds in a swamp with flecks of green on its breast and covering its yellow feet
Close up of a barn swallow taking off, wings up and out, turning to its left
A barn swallow a cool golden breast and face with a deep midnight blue cap on his head and little fluffs.As his wings are tucked back standing atop, a cute little wood post with green bokeh background
Same bird same spot on the ground, this time, he's looking kind of grumpy at me straight in the face
Youngster ca towhee standing on the floor lookin so cute
Glossy Ibis, standing still in a leg-deep crick and showing off wings of many colors.
Crazy red-beaked bane of oysters staring right at me from behind a little berm of sand, the flat, serene gray-blue estuary water behind him
Black phoebe with a white belly with a head tilt and a sweet, curious look on its face. There are also some pretty blurry purple flowers in the background
A pair of oystercatchers, both with a black body, long crimson beak, and red-ringed yellow eye, puttering along the sandy edge of a bright blue estuary
An osprey perched on a dry stem, looking bright in the afternoon sun, but obscured by a mess of cottonwood leaves
Two swallows, flying in formation, the first cutting to is right just at the edge of the moon, the other trailing lower and behind.
Cliff Swallow, wings outstretched and facing the camera, just about to cut across the waxing gibbous Strawberry Moon
Moments later, the bird jutting through the air and over other sunflowers, its wings translucent with the backlit fternoon sun shining through
A Heermann's gull floating around sweetly in a beachside estuary
A bright yellow western tanager. Probably a young male, what with just the subtle rusion of his forehead. He's on a long looping pine stem, creating a pretty awesome contrast
A lesser goldfinch flaming into the feeder, His wings filtering afternoon sunlight, and a red, faced finch already at the fear, staring at him a little bit leerily
White-throated swift like a little sky orca, cutting past the halfmoon
Steller's Jay, bluest feathers, black back and crest, peering over a wavy stem
A video with short clips of birds like ospreys, egrets and herons, along with some still set to the music of the introduction to the muppet show
A little stripe-faced chipmunk in a shadowy forest glen, his body mostly shrouded by ferns in the foreground, though you can make out that he's poised on a little stump
Western Tanager, a young male I believe, perched on the bending stem of a ponderosa pine
A townsend's warbler, black and yellow stripes on head white and black stripes on wings and belly, a chunky spider in his mouth, standing in the crook of a mossy branch
This time, just two of the three rock pigeons sparkly necks, one pigeon, looking intensely at the other from a different part of the same walkway fence system
Nice flight shot of a willet, flying over the bolsa, chica wetlands, green brush and blue-gray water behind him. Mottled tawny back and cool, white and espresso wing barring
Three pigeons lined up on a wooden fence along a wetlands path, all gazing philosophically into the middle distance
Beeb stilt a'prancin like a teeny giraffe in a bed of swamp flowers