Linda Barnia King

A rare sight, a Double-crested Cormorant sharing the tiny island in the neighborhood gravel pit pond with more common Canada Geese… #BirdoftheDay #Grounded #Birds #Geese #Waterbirds #BirdLife #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdWatching #EasternWashington

Say’s Phoebe, a tyrant Flycatcher… prefers low shrubs like this sagebrush in Yakima County’s dry, open areas… #BirdoftheDay #Branched #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #NaturePhotography #Nature #Art

Osage Orange…Yakima Area Arboretum…extremely tough, durable wood used by Native Americans for making bows…several also grow at Fort Simcoe State Park… #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

Halloween cards I made using junk mail envelopes that have a clear address window… #31DaysofHalloween #ArtChallenge #Art #Collage

One of the summer’s backyard roses after a bit of rain…photo bombed by a Bush Katydid Nymph… #ColorADay #PinkMon #Roses #PNW #FlowerPhotography #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Insect #WestCoastPhotography #Flowers

Greater White-Fronted Goose family aka Specklebellies…young remain with adults 12 months as they migrate between the Arctic Tundra & Central California… #BirdoftheDay #OnOneLeg #Birds #SpottySpeckled #Geese #BirdLife #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Bullock’s Oriole male doing a bit of pole dancing on my backyard grape feeder… #EasternWashington #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Birds #WestCoastPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #BirdLife #PNW

Adult Red-winged Blackbird aggressively dominating a juvenile that’s invaded its territory and food source…. #BirdoftheDay #FlightingFeathers #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdLife #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #PNW #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Lots of brown feathering…all photographed in Yakima Valley, Washington state… Killdeer Wilson’s Snipe Wild Turkey Dark morph Red-tailed Hawk #BirdoftheDay #BrownBirds #Birds #Hawks #WestCoastPhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #NaturePhotography #BirdLife

Either a female or immature Black-chinned Hummingbird coming to my backyard feeder…Yakima Valley… #ColorADay #GreenSat #Birds #PNW #Hummingbirds #SmallBirdSaturday #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife

All seen in the Yakima Valley, Washington state… Lazuli Bunting Mallard Drake Northern Shoveler pair Oregon Dark-eyed Junco #BirdoftheDay #LMNO #Birds #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdWatching #Ducks #Buntings #BirdsoftheWorld #WestCoastPhotography

Darker-spotted Straw Moth on Lavender in my garden…10/19/26…produce 2 generations a year and burrow into soil for over-wintering…Yakima Valley… #EasternWashington #PNW #FlyDay #Moths #Insects #Gardening #PurpleFriday #Nature #FlowersOnFriday #Gardens #WestCoastPhotography #NaturePhotography

An American Wigeon male accompanies 2 females, Randall Park pond, Yakima, Washington…surrounding trees just beginning to reflect fall color with the green… #BirdoftheDay #Green #Ducks #PNW #Reflections #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #Photography #Art

Juvenile Osprey siblings photographed 2 days apart…left photo they were not yet flying…right photo they’ve flown to a power pole very close to their platform nest… #BirdoftheDay #Juveniles #Birds #Raptors #BirdPhotography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky

Street corner Yakima, Washington that features the former historic (1908-09) First Baptist Church of Yakima…Richardsonian Romanesque architecture…now mixed-use spaces… #UrbanGaze #Architecture #Scapes #WestCoastPhotography #PNW #LandscapePhotography #Cities #Photography #Buildings #EasternWashington

Romance on a warm fall afternoon… #HumansofBlueSky #Monochrome #BlackandWhitePhotography #BnW #People #Photography #Art

Some of the 9 Black-billed Magpies playing on the fence line along a country driveway… #BirdoftheDay #Corvids #Magpies #BirdPhotography #Birds #BirdLife #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky

A flock of House Finches feeding on the last Sunflower seed heads in my Yakima Valley garden…October 2026 #EasternWashington #PNW #BirdoftheDay #Seasonal #Finches #Birds #BirdPhotography #Flowers #Gardening #WestCoastPhotography #Fall #Autumn #Photography

Last rose blooming in our garden…doing my patriotic duty early…roadside Sumac in fall color…last apples of the season… #EasternWashington #PNW #ColorADay #RedWed #Fruit #Roses #FlowerPhotography #Photography #WestCoastPhotography #Gardening

Male Lazuli Bunting…unlike most birds that migrate who molt before or after the trip they do a mid-migration molt in southwest desert areas & winter in Mexico… #BirdoftheDay #Colorful #Birds #PNW #BirdPhotography #Buntings #Birdlife #WestCoastPhotography #SongBirds #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

Male Black-necked Stilt hunting in a pasture flooded by spring runoff from Toppenish Creek… #BirdoftheDay #Black&White #Birds #Shorebirds #BirdPhotography #PNW #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #NaturePhotography #BirdLife #WestCoastPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky

Mourning Dove…they’re showing up on power lines in our Yakima Valley neighborhood this fall…maybe they’ve figured out no one hunts them here… #BirdoftheDay #Brown #GameBirds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife

Barn Swallow perched on deck furniture and holding amazingly still while I got several photos… #BirdoftheDay #LittleLegs #Swallows #ColorADay #BlueTue #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography #Birds #BirdLife #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #WestCoastPhotography

Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar found among the collection of weeping trees near the Interpretive Center at the Yakima Area Arboretum… #EasternWashington #Landscapes #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

One of the last roses of summer blooming in the patio garden at the Interpretive Center at the Yakima Area Arboretum… #EasternWashington #ColorADay #PinkMon #Roses #BloomScrolling #Gardens #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #WestCoastPhotography

He keeps saying this right to the past few rallies and the mainstream press doesn’t demand proof…never questions it…never points out that a school nurse can’t give a kid an aspirin without written consent from parents…never asks who does this major surgery…

Black-necked Stilts…likely a breeding pair as it was spring and the near bird has the brown shaded back and wing of a female…Yakima Valley, WA #BirdoftheDay #Reflection #Pairs #Shorebirds #BirdPhotography #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky

American Wigeon pair—at least that’s what they appeared to be though maybe it was just a casual thing…Randall Park, Yakima, WA… #BirdoftheDay #Pairs #Ducks #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #PNW #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #NaturePhotography #Shadows

Swallowtail Butterfly enjoying Daylily nectar in my Yakima Valley garden… #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Butterflies #Insects #BloomScrolling #Gardening #GardenPhotography #WestCoastPhotography #Flowers

Bonaparte Gull, a small, tern-like gull captured during fall migration at a pond within McNary National Wildlife Refuge…. #EasterrnWashington #PNW #BirdoftheDay #Larus #Gulls #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld ##BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

Male Mountain Bluebird, Bickleton, Washington, known as the “Bluebird Capital of the World”…human population 90…Bluebird population estimated “thousands”… #BirdoftheDay #Turdidae #Thrushes #Bluebirds #Birds #BirdWatching #Art #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #BirdsoftheWorld

Juvenile Cliff Swallow begging a meal from an adult while both perched on a power line over a Yakima Valley irrigation canal…August 2026 #SmallBirdSaturday #Swallows #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography

The Jewett Pond at the Yakima Area Arboretum, October 14, at 2026…it’s a frequent stop for migrant ducks and geese… #ColorADay #GreenSat #Water #Ponds #Fountians #Scapes #PNW #WestCoastPhotograhy #LandscapePhotography

Great Blue Heron perched over the neighborhood gravel pit pond at dusk… #EasternWashington #PNW #BirdoftheDay #Dusk #Herons #Birds #Silhouette #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #Nature

House Finch catching sunrise light as it breaks through a line of trees east of our front yard garden where it’s feeding on Sunflower seeds… #BirdoftheDay #Dawn #Birds #Finches #BirdPhotography #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #NaturePhotography #WestCoastPhotography

Color is starting to show in the trees on the grounds at the Yakima Area Arboretum… #EasternWashington #PNW #Trees #Scapes #Fall #Autumn #NaturePhotography #Nature #WestCoastPhotography #Photography #AutumnColor #Landscapes #Leaves #LandscapePhotography

A male Sachem Butterfly AKA Field Skipper…they’ve established resident populations in the Yakima Valley…found on the back patio at the Yakima Area Arboretum on 10/14/2026… #FlyDay #Butterflies #Insects #Closeups #Photography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #EasternEashington #NaturePhotography

Black-capped Chickadee all fluffed up for warmth on a winter day 2025 in the Yakima Valley… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #Paridae #Birds #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdsoftheWorld #Wildlife

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas grew up in Yakima, Washington…built in 1912 as a Post Office & Federal District Courthouse it was named for him in 1978 & is in use today… #UrbanGaze #Architecture #Buildings #EasternWashington #Scapes #PNW #LandscapePhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

This youngster was with his parents feeding ducks and geese at a Yakima park…the beggars were getting aggressive…dad had to pull him away… #EasternWashington #PNW #HumansofBlueSky #People #Birds #WestCoastPhotography #Parks #BlackandWhitePhotography #BnW #Monochrome #Photography

Red-shafted Northern Flicker…hadn’t seen one in the yard all summer…then yesterday one made up for its absence by giving several poses… #EasternWashington #PNW #BirdoftheDay #Grey #Woodpeckers #Birds #BirdPhotography #Birding #WestCoastPhotography #Nature #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld

A Kestrel & a couple Magpies catching early sun at the end of our rural driveway…3 more Magpies & a blackbird with them…a very bird-y morning…too spread out to make a photo… #BirdoftheDay #JKLM #Birds #Falcon #Corvidae #BirdPhotography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #RuralScenes #BirdsofBlueSky

Bouquet of flower shop Roses… “Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” 0liver Wendell Holmes… #RoseWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #CloseUp #Blossoms #Roses

Old photo of a Peregrine Falcon called Lars by local birders because it’s favored perch was the historical, art deco,11 story Larson Building, Yakima, Washington… #BirdsoftheDay #UrbanBirds #Falcons #Raptors #BirdPhotography #Birds #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #NaturePhotography #UrbanGaze

Killdeer trying to get me to follow it away from its roadside nest…shot from my pickup truck…McNary National Wildlife Refuge…it was not impressed… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #ShoreBirds #Birds #WestCoastPhotography #PNW #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #BirdsofBlueSky #Art #Nature

Black-billed Magpie in a Douglas Fir keeping an eye on the morning sky…then the same bird flew to a fence post where something on the ground got its attention … #BirdoftheDay #LookingUp #LookingDown #Birds #Corvidae #BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky #WestCoastPhotography #PNW #WildlifePhotography

A charred grove of Cottonwoods at the edge of the community of White Swan, Washington…all had to be cut down due to proximity to a county road… #EasternWashington #PNW #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Nature #Wildfires #LandscapePhotography #WestCoastPhotography #Scapes

Glad I took some flower photos last week…we had freezing temperatures last night…my garden’s looking kind of poorly…time to do fall cleanup… #EasternWashington #PNW #ColorADay #PinkMon #Gardening #FlowerPhotography #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Blossoms #WestCoastPhotography

California Scrub Jay foraging on the grounds of Fort Simcoe State Park…very vocal, multiple different calls, caches food… #BirdoftheDay #Blue #Jays #Corvidae #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #WestCoastPhotography #Birding #BirdsofBlueSky #BirdsoftheWorld #NaturePhotography

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, likely hatched in early summer 2026…tail feathers don’t yet show the rusty-red it’s named for… #EasternWashington #BirdoftheDay #Brown #Hawks #Birds #Raptors #BirdPhotography #Birding #WestCoastPhotography #PNW