Wildlife of the Koenigsberg Photo Contest

Okey L. King and his grandson Jonathan are competing to see who can make the best wildlife photo. If you wish, you mail email me at okeyl@earthlink.net and tell us your favorite. Photos on this page are by Okey L. King and Jonathan Danial King

My grandson Jonthan made this photo of a goldfinch in winter dress with my camara.

Photo by Okey L. King

Ol Brer Coon was marooned in the top of a locust tree after he lamost "got kotched" by our big ol black and white dog Buzz Lightyear. He stayed up in that tree all day until the dark fell. The next winter, Jonathan and I tracked a coon all the way from down at my mother-in-laws house to our house. There we found that he had crashed one of our birdfeeders. "Ol Brer Coon is fixin to get into a peck o trouble.

Jonthan made these photos of Irwin the bird seed pirate. .....................................

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Cousin Nuthatch, Carolyn's favorite bird. Photo by Jonathan.

............. My cousins Carol and Wayne Stone would call this feller old downey peckerwood.
photo by Okey L. King

.......................................... Kind of a wierd photo by Jonathan.
He said that it was a nuthatch looking at him head on.

Mr. Cardnal has his feathers fluffed out to protect against the bitter cold. Photo by Jonathan.

Jonathan made these next three photos

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.................Mr. nuthatch

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..............................................Brer Titmouse

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I think that this fellow is a white-throated sparrow.

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........................ Mr. photogenic nuthatch.

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Jonathan looked out of the window and saw this pilated woodpecker.
These are what we used to call wood hens because they are so big. Jonathan had to run and put the batteries in his camara while hoping Bre Woodpecker would stay put.

"Snowbird photo by Okey L. King

I believe that this is a female cardnal. She makes a interesting photo with her color pattern.
photo by Okey L. King

As far as I can tell, this is a fox sparrow. I beleve that this is the frist one that I have seen. With my eyesight, I was lucky to see him with his camaflage.
Photo by Okey L. King

This mourning dove standing amid the flowers was captured in a photo by Jonathan who was sitting not far from the bird.

.................................. This appears to be another kind of sparrow
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................These swans were not on the Koeingsburg. The were at Tuckahoe Lake up at our church.

Natural Disastor

.....We have suffered a natural disaster caused by four days of hard freezes. The sarvis (service berry) were in full bloom and were killed. Since there are so many of them, they form a large part of bird diets in the month of June. I don't what other wild things were killed that birds and other wildlife feed on, but they are going to have a hard row to hoe. Even the redbuds were burned. We are having one of the coldest and most dismal springs on record. But, I believe that some of the later things may make it.

.....It has been a very horrible dry summer. We have not had rain for weeks and weeks. Among the dry weeds and brush, the deer and other forms of wildlife are moving. These two photos were captured by an enexpensive game camara that my son attached to a small walnut tree a short distance from our house. After one weekend,we found these photos.

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.....During the day, probably on Saturday, a large buck examed the camara. But, the only photo of him that we got was one of one very large antler. But, the camara is still there and we hope to get some more shots. Perhaps we may be surprised to find a photo of a bear someday. Bears have become a problem this year because there is little for them to eat. Roaming coyotes are also a problem.

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.....As we were walking back through the grass Saturday after we had replace the card in the game camara, Jonathan saw movement in the grass by his foot. It was a very tiny garter snake. He was so fast that we could not make his photo in the grass. His coloration was so perfect, he disappeared in the grass several times. We had to gently direct him into an old electric box for his photo session. I made the first photo and Jonathan made the second

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After his photo session, we released our tiny buddy back into the grass so that might grow and eat a ton of Bugs. That is, if something that would like to eat him dose not get him first. I had never noticed how beautiful a garter snake is.

.....We are finally getting a rain this afternoon. This is the first since July and this is the 10th of September.

.....Below are just a few of the many photos we harvested from the game camara the last week of September. Some of the deer are sre so thin because of the lack of food in the wild, we decided to try to help them out with some corn. As you see, the deer were not the only ones to appreciate it. I am still waiting for a bear photo.

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From this photo, you can see the plight of some of the deer from lack of food and from a disease that is in the herd this year.

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.......Photo by Jonathan King with my camara

.....We were walking down a road on the Koeigsberg when Jonathan looked up and saw this long-legged visitor surveying the neighborhood.

.....My Son-in-law David Price made this photo with Jonathan's Camara not far from their house on the Greenbrie river in Summers County. Although this was not on our hill, we have these old fellers living here as well.

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...............Photo by David Price

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..........Photo by Okey L. King
.....I made this photo of this little hawk quite a few years ago.

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