Just another day in paradise

If these bird of paradise blooms could speak, what would they say?

 

There's not much on this earth more adorable than buffleheads bobbing and diving in a lagoon, but they baffled my attempts to get a good picture. Instead, I offer the Nuttall's Woodpecker, which is not all it's cracked up to be.

Topiary Mariachi would be a great name for a band, unless you want to switch it up and make it Mariachi Topiary. 

This red-shouldered hawk looks pensive. Maybe he's disgusted by the very idea of mariachi topiary. 

There's nothing particularly newsworthy about a sunset--it happens every day without ever rising to the level of "Dog Bites Man." And yet! Sometimes a sunset is worth writing home about.

(Who put a ring on it?)