Kirby’s almost favorite photos from 2025

My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘almost favorites’ … they were good, but not quite good enough. Often, the subject or content was really good, but the photo quality stretched.

Full resolution photos are posted at Adobe – the ‘almost‘ gallery.

Which one made you stop and look again – add a comment about it

Plants

Animals

Scenery

The scene in order:

• The Plants
  • Chicken of the Forest growing on a tree
  • Frost on a blackberry leaf
  • Mill Race reflection at Alton Baker Park, Pre’s Trail
• The Animals
  • A bobcat meeting at Mt Pisgah
  • A banded kingfisher who never sits still above the Mill Race
  • One solitary male deer in the fog at Mt Pigah
• The Scenery
  • The Painted Hills, Mitchell, OR
  • B&B Complex fire skeletons before 3 Finger Jack, Mt Jefferson Wilderness
  • Snags before a sunrise from Ridgeline Trail, Eugene
  • A long raptor soaring at sunrise – location forgotten