CloudBoxer | Birds in Flight

An ordinary bird feeder, an ordinary day:
and the ordinary, beautiful, eternal ballet
of survival, flight, and falling.

"Because they are so lovely, and seem so fragile -- they *are* fragile -- we tend to think of birds as delicate creatures, literally above the fray of the earthbound existence the rest of us live.

But in these photographs, we can see the bird's-eye view for what it is, and how tough and resilient these animals are, and have to be."

  · Kathe Koja, from the introduction to the book Aerial Acrobats.

Tumbling through the sky, these aerial acrobats dive, soar, play and battle: songbirds, cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, finches, grackles, nuthatches, sparrows, bluejays and starlings.