Kirby’s VERY 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 ‘VERY favorite’ … these she found to be the very best and wants to keep looking at them.

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

Which one made you stop and look again – add a comment about it; one surprise, few are from wilderness.

The Plants

The Animals

The Scenery

The scenes in order:

• The Plants
  • A lone long dead tree on Northern IN farm at sunrise
  • Flowers from a neighbor’s yard
  • Cactus in bloom in our yard
• The Animals
  • A kestrel eating lunch along the Mckenzie River
  • A chipmunk with a bird’s-eye perch for lunch
  • Two red-tail hawks circling above Alton Baker Park, Eugene
• The Scenery
  • The sunrise through the woods at Mt. Pisgah
  • A bench above the fog at Mt. Pisgah
  • Moonset above the ridge in B&B Complex Fire, 3 Finger Jack, Mt Jefferson Wilderness
  • Early morning trail on Ridgeline Trail, Eugene
  • A raft floating on Stone Lake, IN
  • One bridge tucked into the Redwoods