We have been blessed with several families of Wood Ducks in the Killbuck Wetlands this summer. Some have had more success than others in raising a hatch of ducklings. In the picture above, a mother Wood Duck keeps her four ducklings close to her. These are from a late hatch as others are nearly full grown. See Wood Ducks for more of these families.

This goose seems to showing off by balancing on one foot while standing on the top of the dam. The surface is slippery but ducks and geese like to feed here. See Water Fowl to see more interesting birds on and near the dam.

Penelope, left, and Junior, right, share a quiet time together at dusk on a July evening. See Barred Owls for more pictures of this pair. Also see Barred Owl Family History for the full story of this family of Barred Owls.

A Dragon Fly pauses to rest above the waters of the Killbuck Wetlands. See Things that Fly for pictures of other flying non-birds.

A very wet juvenile Baltimore Oriole takes a bath. Mick Hardy snapped this after days of looking for these young Orioles. See Oriole Babies for more Oriole pictures.

Three baby Bluebirds gather around the Mick's birdbath. They are starting to get their colors. See Baby Bluebirds for more pictures of these delightful birds.

Three guesses what kind of bird this is.
It's a trick question because this bird is neither wild nor native. It's a baby Peacock at the Cincinnati Zoo. This and other pictures from the Cincinnati Zoo were taken by Paul Harbron. See Zoo Birds for more birds from two zoos.

If this bird looks familiar, it's because we featured it in the July edition as one of several kinds of birds we saw in China. However, we did not know what kind of bird it was. Thanks to Kamal Islam at Ball State University, we now know the identities of this and other China birds. This bird is an Azure-winged Magpie. To quote Kamal, this bird is "a relatively common bird in and around Beijing. What is interesting is that it has a disjunctive distribution. It occurs in China but not in other parts of Asia or Europe until you get to the Iberian Peninsula where it once again occurs in Spain and Portugal." See Chinese Birds to learn the identities of others.

Screen Savers

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Yangtze River Scene

A small stream cuts through the Wu Mountains to join the Yangtze River

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Award Winning Web Site

We were honored to receive the East Central Indiana Audubon Society's Conservation Education Award for the work done through this web site. We thank the Audubon Society for this recognition and promise to continue our efforts to bring you interesting bird-related pictures.

We hope you enjoy the pictures. Your comments are welcome and may be sent to us at this address:

Tom and Jean Harbron

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