Bird Watching pt. 4

Picking up where I left off, where I left off, where I left off...

The birds in the photographs are as follows (from top to bottom):

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Prothonotary Warbler

Northern Bobwhite

Chestnut-sided Warbler, Indigo Bunting

Wood Thrush

Purple Gallinule

Rock Wren

Prairie Falcon

Sage Thrasher

Gray Partridge

Mountain Chickadee

White-crowned Sparrow

Western Grebe

Wood Duck

Song Sparrow

Red-tailed Hawk, Black-billed Magpie

Great-tailed Grackle

Townsend's Solitaire

Common Raven

What has that got to do with it?

These images are the result of a scramble to put together a body of work within thirty hours of my thirtieth birthday. I was never highlighted in an under-thirty feature, and I cannot help but feel that I never lived up to my twenty-something potential. However, now that I am comfortably thirty-years-old, I feel a noticeable relief. The anxieties associated with being eligible, but not chosen for an exclusive, under-thirty feature are long behind me. And with a new perspective, I cannot help but ask...

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...what has 30 got to do with it?