Friday, December 30, 2022

Favorite Wildlife, 2022

Birds in Art 

During November & December. 2022, we visited several wonderful art museums where we saw some
great works that included images of birds and other creatures.
Van Gogh’s “Wheatfield with Crows” is very memorable.

Van Gogh, “Landscape with Rabbits.” Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

“The Goldfinch” by Carl Fabritius in the Mauritshaus, The Hague.
The bird is a captive European Goldfinch.

Birds and Animals in the Wild

We also saw some wonderful birds and other animals while traveling during the last year. Here are just a few of the wildlife images from our various trips during the year.

Arizona, April 2022

American Goldfinch.

Flame-Colored Tanager.


Greenland, August 2022.

Musk Ox.

Whales and icebergs.


The Netherlands, December 2022.

Tawny Owl.

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Common Buzzard


Maryland: The Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River, March 2022


Black Vulture

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Bald Eagle

© 2022 mae sander

15 comments:

Lori said...

Beautiful!

My name is Erika. said...

Such fabulous wildlife Mae. And you actually saw the GOldfinch. I'm glad it wasn't stolen as it is in the book by the same title. Happy New year to you! hugs-Erika

Iris Flavia said...

Wow, my Peanut sure cannot compete ;-)
Great animals. You live in a wonderful country and do some great traveling. Thank you for sharing this!

Tina said...

Very nice photos! I particularly like The Goldfinch painting you saw. The musk ox looks quite intimidating.

Jenn Jilks said...

You have had such wonderful travels!

DVArtist said...

These are just gorgeous. Thank you for being part of my blogging world and I wish you and your family the very best for the New Year.

Tandy | Lavender and Lime (http://tandysinclair.com) said...

What an amazing year! May 2023 be even better.

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
What a great post, I enjoyed seeing the birds and animals from your travels.
Beautiful paintings, I think the European Goldfinch is a pretty bird. The Flame-colored Tanager is a beauty! I love the whale tail, awesome capture.
The Tawny Owl is adorable. The Bald Eagle shot is beautiful too. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. I wish you all the best in 2023, a happy and healthy New Year! PS, thank you for all your comments and links this past year.

eileeninmd said...

Hello Mae,
What a great post, I enjoyed seeing the birds and animals seen on your travels. The paintings are lovely, the European Goldfinch is a beauty.
I love that Flame-colored Tanager, the cute Owl, Buzzard and the Bald Eagle is awesome. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. I wish you all the best in 2023, a happy and healthy New Year! PS, thank you for all your comments and links this past year.

eileeninmd said...

Hello, Mae

What a great critters post, wonderful critters and birds seen during your travels. Love the Eagle with the fish, awesome capture. I would love to see the Flame-colored Tanager and the cute Tawny Owl. The Whale tail is a cool capture too . Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. I wish you all the best in 2023, a happy and healthy New Year! PS, thank you for all your comments and links this past year.

David M. Gascoigne, said...

Your travels yielded some fabulous results, Mae and the photographs are stunning. I hope that more people will appreciate, cherish and protect wildlife in 2023.

Jeanie said...

You have some wonderful images from 2022. And what wonderful journeys you have taken. Here's to a good year for our wildlife in 2023.

~Lavender Dreamer~ said...

That's such a good idea to share these at the end of the year. I would like to try to put together a post like this. You've had some amazing sighting and taken such great photos! Happy New year!

thecuecard said...

Wow nice! Love the Van Gogh and the goldfinches. Did you see an Owl ?! I'm sort of an owl freak. but it's been a couple years since I've seen one. We once had a Great Horned Owl nest near the river .... with two little owlets that were amazing to watch. But they have not come back, argh!

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

I absolutely adore your retrospective. Marvelous way to end 2022. The first time I saw the Van Gogh Crows (I had just purchased a canvas of it), I was visibly shaken. Hard to explain, but it no longer bothers/affects me in that same way. Have a safe, healthy, joyous new year and magical 2023, dear Mae!