These clouds will suffocate you

Updated Website

(Juvie Red-tailed Hawk )

Oh hey. I updated my website. Took a while (mmm, like more than a year). But check it out if you so desire: Jill Wussow Photography

Shorebirds, more of 'em.

(Above: Sanderlings; Below: Sanderling and a Ruddy Turnstone)

This may be the last blog for a little while, not sure when I'll have ample internetwebs again. So soak it all up! More shorebird buddies from Anahuac NWR. (Below: Black-bellied Plover stretching it out; Western Sandpiper; American Avocet)

Shorebird friends

These guys are from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. They've got things to do, people-birds to meet, places to go... (Black-bellied Plover, American Oystercatcher, and a disheveled Willet)

Last Four (2011 Best of- Part III)

Okay then, here's the last four chosen ones. I figured 10 was an appropriate number, no? Hope 2012 is a big fat fancy happy year for everyone!

1. Female Painted Bunting, Leakey, Texas. She posed real nice. Real nice.

2. American Lotus in Northern Mississippi. I could take photos of these things for hours.

3. Texas coast sunrise. So it's really not all that spectacular, the photo I mean. But it was a pretty fantastic sunrise. On the Texas Coast. Not often that I see pretty landscapes there, so this was a little exciting. (it was also absolutely freezing!)

4. Green Anole, Eastern Mississippi. Glamour shot! I love finding these guys and they love having their photo taken. It works out well for all of us.

Salamanders Smile! (2011 Best of. Part II)

Oh yeah, here's three more of my 2011 favorites.

1. Marbled Salamander from Eastern Mississippi. If you don't smile back at him, I will question if you have a heart. Because he's smiling. At you.

2. Milkweed Pod from Middle Tennessee. Action pod. Kinda cool.

3. Magnolia Warbler from Middle Tennessee. I realize it's a bit of a flat photo, but when a warbler sits three feet in front of you snarfing bugs and posing like this - well, it's kind of exciting for a bird photographer. Kinda.

Stuff I like. (2011 Best of. Part I)

Yeah, get on outta here 2011. You go now. Am I supposed to be doing the whole 'best of 2011' thing. I think so, the blogworld tells me so. Though I don't really like being told what to do. So here's three of my favorites for now.

1. Yellow-rumped Warbler. From Concan, Texas. This is possibly one of my favorite bird photos I've taken, errr, ever. Because lookit. Just look at him. A soaked, fuzzy ball of bird, doesn't really get a whole lot cuter than that.

2. Shiny shit. Or rather, bubblets. Bubbles? Leakey, Texas. It makes me happy.

3. Tiny monster. In the Saturniidae family, I know that much. Also in Leakey, Texas. He will haunt you in your sleepy and confused times. Also looks like a phallic garbanzo bean, which totally freaks me out.