Extreme Close-ups

So there is a Wood Duck in Central Park that thinks it's a Mallard and has a Mallard-girlfriend. Wood ducks are normally very shy, but mallards are very tame. So this one has been allowing very close looks at itself for anyone who stops by:



If you look closer, you can see the reflection of the Manhattan skyline in its eye:


Everyone's familiar Cardinal. Originally known as red grosbeak or simply redbird:


Angry bird!


Pink-footed Goose in a Long Island park. This is a European vagrant - each year, only a few show up in North America by mistake. Now that it's here, it'll probably stay with its flock of Canada geese for life.


Winter Wren in Sandy Hook, NJ:


White-crowned Sparrow is munching on a moth:


Tree Swallow:


Young Barn Swallow:


Baby House Sparrow:


Northern Shoveler:


Green-Winged Teal in Central Park. The green patch over its eye is the original of the name for color "teal".


Common sight in Coimbatore, India:


Northern California:


"If you can see the reflection in my eye, you are too close!"


Frost in a state park near Spokane, WA: