Once again, our readers submit their beautiful photos of local bird life.

At left, a mourning dove, slightly ruffled; at right, juvenile barn swallows seem to be scolding one of their nestmates at Bena.

Above, feeding time in the chickadee family, and below, a hawk in flight, and a scarlet tanager.

Summer ferns conceal a nest full of promise in Gloucester.

Sunset on the Ware River and orange daylilies frame an osprey coming in with a fish for the babies....