Just a guy in Seattle with a camera and an enduring fondness for living things. “I love photographing birds, even if they are just robotic drones made to spy on us…”

Mating pair of bald eagles landing in the dead top of a tall tree at Lincoln Park. DISCLAIMER: I’ve been sneaking some “Birds Aren’t Real” stuff onto my site lately and I feel I must let people know that I don’t actually believe every bird we see is really a robotic surveillance drone. BUT, I find the Birds Aren’t Real movement to be a lot of fun. You should research it if you want to know more about it. And maybe if this gets some attention some kind soul will send me a cool Birds Aren’t Real t-shirt… Just kidding. Men’s large, btw…

Making photos of birds, I have gained both deepened appreciation for them and an unrelenting hunger to know more about all the many different ones I see. The Caspian terns are among the most beautiful and impressive examples of the advanced technology required to create thoroughly convincing replicas of living creatures that are in fact robotic drones made for covert surveillance… Okay, I hope the reader understands that’s all tongue in cheek. Read about the Birds Aren’t Real parody conspiracy theory.

Caspian Tern flying west over Jefferson Park, south of downtown Seattle. How do I remember which direction they were flying? Simple: when they fly over the park they’re heading either east or west. They fly east to Lake Washington to look for fish, and sometimes when they’re returning to their nesting site they’re carrying their catch. I’ve never seen one flying east with a fish.

Something possessed me to buy a DSLR. I don’t think I imagined how obsessively I would come to want to make striking photographs of wild creatures, an enthusiasm strangely undiminished by the discovery that none of the birds I photograph are actually real living creatures. Kidding. Read about the Birds Aren’t Real parody conspiracy theory.

Male Anna’s Hummingbird looking chilly in February, with snowflakes on his bill…

I am in Seattle, in the neighborhood known as north Beacon Hill. I can be reached via email: cafurfaro1974@gmail.com

This male house finch, on the wires above an alley near my home, was very curious about me and my camera.
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