Yard Birds, 513 West Main Street,
Crawfordsville, Indiana
From autumn of 2001 until summer of 2009 we lived
in a house with a small yard near the campus of Wabash College in
Crawfordsville, Indiana. It's a quiet neighborhood, but not a particularly
"birdy" place (no water, no meadows, no woods, not a clear view of
the sky, etc.). So all things considered, my
Crawfordsville yard list total of 104 species is not bad (IÕve included
dates by the species I saw only once in, or from, my Crawfordsville yard; i.e.,
no date listed means I saw that species in, or from, my yard at least twice). I
made many of the photos on this page just as I was beginning to learn bird
photography; they were my practice shots before I ventured further afield. My young sons were with me when I made most of these
photos, so even though the quality of some of these shots is not great, IÕve
included them here as a kind of commemoration of that special time with my
boys, when they were so young. The photos on this page were made between the
dates of June 2005 (when I first started making bird photos) and July 2009
(when we moved to Michigan).
Turkey
Vulture.
Cooper's Hawk.
White-winged Dove.
Mourning Dove.
Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Eastern Wood-Pewee.
Blue-headed Vireo.
Red-eyed Vireo.
Blue Jay.
Carolina Chickadee.
Tufted Titmouse.
Red-breasted Nuthatch.
White-breasted Nuthatch.
Brown Creeper.
Orange-crowned
Warbler.
Tennessee Warbler.
Northern Parula Warbler.
Yellow
Warbler.
Cape May Warbler.
Common
Yellowthroat.
Song Sparrow.
White-throated Sparrow.
Dark-eyed Junco.
Northern Cardinal.