Chinstrap Penguins Presentation:Gallery Flat Mount

Chinstrap Penguins Presentation:Gallery Flat MountA group of Chinstrap Penguins marches toward the water from their nesting sites on the Antarctic Peninsula. . Gallery Mount, Ready to Hang no framing or hardware required. Photo by Bud Lehnhausen

I noticed a monarch butterfly visiting the nearby flowers of swamp milkweed

Watching a flock of American Goldfinches feast on the seeds of sunflowers is one of my favorite fall scenes

I make sure to repeatedly visit the lakes and ponds where these beautiful shorebirds arrive on their return migration to nesting grounds further north and east of my home

I noticed sunlight glimmering through the fog around a Steller's Jay that had perched on a branch of a snow-covered ponderosa pine

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as well as during the night

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I have explored wild areas from almost one pole of Earth to the other

Fairly common in ponderosa pine forests of Colorado

These small songbirds generally travel in flocks

I painted this image mainly to help myself memorize the traits and names of the five most common junco types that return to Colorado each fall and stay for winter

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