The Birds and The Bees (In my Garden)

House Sparrows caught in the act.


A honey bee


I don't know who his friend is.

Comments

BarnGoddess said…
wee Im first!

I think....

very good photos. The purple flower is my fave.

Scooter (my horse) has a bird friend that follows him around in the evenings and picks bugs off him, its funny to watch.

LAstnight his bird friend may have went hungry because I gave Scooter an extra good bug-spraying..
2:20 PM, July 12, 2007
Debs said…
Beautiful pics as always. :)

TY for wishing Thing 1 a happy bday.
2:47 PM, July 12, 2007
willowtree said…
Ah yes, close up photography, the friend of the textually challenged blogger.

Very nice Sis, I like the bees ones the best.
3:17 PM, July 12, 2007
Anonymous said…
Great pictures...Love the bird porn.

And those flowers are beautiful!
6:15 PM, July 12, 2007
Anonymous said…
ha! on bird porn. Pamela, oh, my...you? SPICY?

Very n i c e pictures...:)
6:23 PM, July 12, 2007
Pamela said…
Barngoddess: most likely a cowbird. males are dark with brown heads. females are brown.

Debs: you're welcome and thank you, too

WT: I'm not textually challenged... I'm just pooped. Isn't that the excuse you used??? (:

JJ & Robin:
I nearly called this post Pornithology because of those birds doing the wild thing,
6:46 PM, July 12, 2007
Carole Burant said…
You forgot to tell me that I should have closed my eyes at that first picture!! hehe I so love close up of flowers, especially if they have a bee on it...just beautiful!! xox
8:13 PM, July 12, 2007
Masago said…
Birds & the bees... too cute!
8:19 PM, July 12, 2007
Shelby said…
well, I guess if they gotta, they gotta.

fabulous post and photos :)
8:42 PM, July 12, 2007
Fish-2 said…
I now have some of those flowers growing in my back yard. Someone said it's "Echinacea". Does anyone know if that's correct?
9:23 PM, July 12, 2007
my4kids said…
bird porn....hehe.
I don't think I've ever seen that before....
11:02 PM, July 12, 2007
Irene said…
Wow! Ain't nature amazing? ;p

You've got an eye for taking good photos, Pamela! Keep at it. ;p
3:18 AM, July 13, 2007
Molly said…
Very nice pictures. At first, I didn't notice that there were two sparrows.
4:28 AM, July 13, 2007
Anonymous said…
I love the birds and the bees as you tell the story with your photos.
6:12 AM, July 13, 2007
Claudia said…
hehe...exhibitionist sparrows!! who knew???
8:01 AM, July 13, 2007
ChrisB said…
You always manage to take some beautiful photos and these are particularly good.
9:34 AM, July 13, 2007
Anonymous said…
Maybe they're on a lunch date?
11:04 AM, July 13, 2007
Anonymous said…
Your pictures are really beautiful. I had to laugh at the birdy porn. How dare those birds! Don't they know there's human watching? =D
7:26 AM, July 15, 2007
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