Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jul 14

A few stills of Mexican Jays from Madera Canyon, AZ. 🐦‍⬛🪶 One of Arizona's most intelligent songbirds, always curious and rarely still, which I quickly found out trying to track them in a thick grove using manual focus! #photography #wildlife

A Mexican Jay perches on a branch while looking at something out of frame to the left, with its eye clear and visible. The blue-gray bird is sharply focused against a warm, creamy background of golden foliage, with soft afternoon light revealing fine feather detail.

A Mexican Jay stands among dry grasses and fallen leaves on the forest floor. The bird's blue-gray plumage stands out against warm golden and brown tones, with soft foreground grasses and a blurred woodland background creating a sense of depth. The jay looks alert as warm sunlight illuminates its feathers.

A Mexican Jay perches on a sunlit branch, facing left. Its blue-gray plumage contrasts with a softly blurred golden woodland background. The bird's eye is sharp, and warm afternoon light highlights the subtle feather detail across its head, wings, and breast.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jul 14

Wild turkeys don't usually make anyone's list of "beautiful" birds. But spend a few minutes watching one in the right light, and the bronze, copper, and iridescent feathers tell a completely different story. Gobble, gobble. 🪶 #photography #wildlife

Close-up portrait of a wild turkey against a black background. The bird is lit by warm sunlight, highlighting intricate bronze and brown iridescent feathers and the textured pink skin of its neck. Its amber eye is sharply focused, giving the portrait an elegant, dramatic look.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jul 12

Moody fine-art portraits of a Snowy Egret tending to its plumage. 🖤🪶 #Photography #FineArt

A vertical shot of a white snowy egret perched on a dark diagonal branch. The bird is twisting its head back to preen its shoulder, causing the long, fluffy white feathers on its head to stand straight up like a wild crest.

A close-up vertical portrait of a white snowy egret looking down with its neck curved. The composition highlights the incredible texture of its long, silky white breeding plumes draping down its body against a dark background.

A tight vertical portrait of a white snowy egret facing forward against a solid matte black background. The bird has an intense downward stare with bright golden eyes, and small wispy feathers are wrapped around the tip of its black bill.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jul 10

Found this beautiful Red-backed Dark-eyed Junco catching the morning light on a perfect perch. 🌲📸 🪶 #BirdAndWildlife #NaturePhotography #FeathersAndFluff #BirdsOfBluesky

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jul 4

Perched high above the Oregon coast, this White-crowned Sparrow paused just long enough for a portrait. 🪶💙

A White-crowned Sparrow perches at the tip of a spruce branch against a pale blue-gray sky. The bird faces slightly downward from its elevated perch, showing its black-and-white striped crown, gray breast, and warm tan bill. Fresh green needles frame the perch while the uncluttered background keeps the focus on the sparrow.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 20

A juvenile Cooper's Hawk pauses in the shadows of a cottonwood, watching the world with the intensity only a young raptor can muster. Despite an injury to it's left eye (not shown in this image, this young bird remained alert, observant, and determined.🪶 #photography #wildlife

A juvenile Cooper's Hawk perches between the split trunks of a weathered cottonwood tree. The young raptor's brown plumage is patterned with pale spots, and sunlight highlights the feathers on its head and shoulders. One bright yellow eye is visible as the hawk looks attentively into the distance. Twisted branches frame the bird, while the softly blurred background reveals hints of water and reflected light from the riparian habitat.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 17

Three moments from an osprey's hunt from over the weekend! 💙 1. Post hunt attempt 2. A banking turn against the clouds, 3. Low pass over the shoreline after nabbing a fish. All in all, there were about 6 Ospreys hunting. My head was definitely on a swivel! #birds #wildlife #photography

Osprey after a hunting attempt in a lake, the bird flies past the camera with wings arched and droplets of water falling beneath it.

Osprey banking sharply against a cloudy blue sky, showing the underside of its wings and tail.

Osprey gliding low over the shoreline with a fish in its talons, eyes locked ahead.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 16

The light through the ponderosas was almost as good as the birding. 🌲🐦‍⬛ #photography

Sunlight streams through a stand of tall ponderosa pine trees, casting long shadows across the forest floor. Golden light illuminates patches of grass and a small meadow beyond the trees, while dark trunks frame the scene and create a peaceful woodland atmosphere.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 15

Somewhere in northern Arizona, the rain was falling over there, the sun was shining over here, and I was standing in the middle of it wondering what the weather had planned next (torrential downpour eventually). 😀🦋 #photography

Vast northern Arizona grassland beneath towering summer thunderheads. Sunlit prairie stretches to the horizon while rain falls from distant clouds under patches of deep blue sky.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 7

Arizona did it again. 🌅 #photography #sunset

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 6

Don't Get Between a Snowy and His Minnow.🪶🦋 #birds #photography #egrets

Two Snowy Egrets wade in shallow water. One bird faces forward with its breeding plumes raised in an apparent display while another moves nearby. Their reflections shimmer in the water below.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 2

King Snowy on patrol. Snowy Egrets always look elegant until the wind catches those crown feathers and reminds you they're basically tiny punk-rock herons.😀 #birds #photography 📍Riparian Preserve, Arizona

A Snowy Egret flies low over calm water in a wetland, its bright white wings fully extended and reflected on the surface below. The bird's yellow feet trail behind it, and its wispy crown feathers are blown back by the wind. Tall reeds and dark shadows create a dramatic background that makes the egret stand out against the scene.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Jun 1

After months of writing and rewriting, and wondering if I was ever going to finish it, Ellie and the Egret King is officially being queried. 48,849 words. If you feel like it, please wish King Snowy luck. 🦢🙏🏻🪶 #EllieAndTheEgretKing #AmQuerying #KidLit #MiddleGradeBooks #WritingCommunity #Wildlife

Book poster for Ellie and the Egret King. A girl sits at a writing desk beside a window overlooking a sunlit wetland preserve with ponds, trees, and a flying egret. Wildlife sketches, books, and a white feather surround her workspace, suggesting themes of nature, observation, and discovery.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 31

It may not seem like much, but a few feet of discarded fishing line is enough to devastate wildlife. PSA: If you pack it in, please pack it out. 🦋🙏🦋 Thank you,

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 31

There are some birds you photograph once and forget. And then there are Snowy Egrets. Elegant one moment. Completely ridiculous the next. This particular Snowy spent the evening strutting through the shallows, looking equal parts royalty and chaos. King Snowy. 👑🪶

Snowy Egret walking directly toward the camera through shallow water with crest feathers standing upright and wings partially spread. The bird's white plumage glows in warm evening light.

Snowy Egret standing in shallow water during golden hour. Long breeding plumes stream behind the bird while soft blue water reflects the evening sky.

Snowy Egret silhouetted against bright water as it bends its neck downward while foraging. The bird's dark reflection is visible beneath it among circular ripples.

Snowy Egret splashing through shallow water with one wing raised high overhead. Crest feathers flare outward while water droplets scatter around the bird.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 19

The neighborhood mockingbirds absolutely lost their minds over this Harris’s Hawk on my block wall this morning. I managed to catch the whole dive-bombing sequence through my screen door before the hawk finally bailed. Full video is up on my YT channel if you're interested in seeing it. 💙🦋🪶

A Harris’s Hawk hops up onto a higher portion of a block retaining wall, with both wings raised and its feet suspended in air as it eyes a landing. The hawk’s chestnut wings and white tail feathers glow softly in the backlight, giving the scene a dramatic, almost theatrical feel.

A Harris’s Hawk lands awkwardly on a tan block wall with one wing raised and one foot lifted mid-step while sunlight filters through green leaves behind it. The hawk’s chestnut wings and white tail feathers glow softly in the backlight, giving the scene a dramatic, almost theatrical feel.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 17

Royal Pond 9 energy. 👑✨🪶 Caught this Snowy Egret looking like he just stepped out of a fantasy novel and into the preserve. #photography

Snowy Egret perched on a thick tree branch with long white breeding plumes blowing backward in the wind. The bird’s bright yellow feet and intense yellow eye stand out against a dark, softly blurred green and brown background. Sunlight highlights the delicate feather details, giving the egret a regal, windswept appearance.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 4

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 4

Arizona sunsets rarely disappoint! ♥️ #nature #sunsets

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· May 3

Spent sunset tonight with this crew. 🦆🎴 The Message Said to Meet at the Lake. 🪶 Full video, here: www.youtube.com/shorts/BO8Tk...

Three domesticated ducks walk towards the camera, with a geese family walking in the same direction a ways behind them; all with a gorgeous sunset backdrop.

Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️@lizzyesau· Apr 29

POV: your parent said ‘you’re gonna figure it out yourself’ 😅🦅 Juvie: but I’m literally yelling??? Bald Eagles—Salt River, AZ 4/24/26. #birds #photography #wildlife