Category Archives: Year 2

Biking & Birding the Ozark Mountains

Year 2,

The Ozark Mountains are gorgeous in their spring time splendor. My wife and I are over 1,100+ miles into a self supported bicycle tour. The scenery along the roadsides has been fantastic, and the birds sing to us every morning as we head out on tour around 7 am. I hope you enjoy a few photos of both my birding, and my bicycling.

Read my full trip diary, with many more photographs.

Birding the Ozarks

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Scissor-Tail Flycatchers (the duo I was photographing in the previous image)

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Male and Female Bluebirds

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Bicycling the Pig Trail Scenic Byway in the Ozark National Forest

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Sunset as seen from our campsite one night in the Ozarks

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Our Route Through Day #27

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A photography award for this birding photography blog!

Year 2

One of the top birding sites for purchasing bird feeders, BirdFeeders.Com, just awarded my web site an award for having a top hummingbird photograph. Before I accepted this award I checked out their site and found their web service provides lots of useful information, not just the selling of bird feeders. Here is the award, and my photograph!


Ruby Throated Hummingbird

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Ozark Mountains Feathered Friends

Year 2,

For almost 900 miles of bicycling I have wanted to photograph the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher. Finally yesterday morning a male struck a nice pose. The males do wonderful acrobatics when they go a courting.

Molly and I are loving the Ozarks. The countryside is lush, green and beautiful. You may read my full trip diary via this link.

Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher

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Molly looks out over our route and the Ozarks

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Our route through Day #21 … 900 miles of cycling

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