Turtles are fun and easy to photograph as they don’t move fast, generally. Painted turtles in Amherst and Hadley, MA And here is a…
Category: Western Massachusetts Birding
A collection of blog posts related to bird photography in Western Massachusetts.
The novel Red-headed Woodpecker
This bird is rarely seen in Massachusetts Walking along the Norwottuck bike path, I caught a flash of red at the top of a…
Wood Ducks – I’m still in their thrall!
So beautiful and so shy! Seen at Fanny Stebbins Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow, MA And here was another pair seen the same day at…
Swans in flight
Always pretty – not always nice Watching the adults with a few of their offspring, there were a couple of spats between one of…
Owl show, owl portraits
From the tiny Saw-whet to the giant Eurasian Eagle Owl. These are the birds of http://www.eyesonowls.com/whooo.htm Mark and Marcia Wilson: educators and rehabilitators. The…
Swans and 6 Cygnets
Baby swans are growing up! May 23, 2022 A week later A month later, residing deep in the reeds September 3, feeding and enjoying…
Green Herons, 9/1/22
The many aspects of this remarkably malleable bird. As he sits on a stump waiting for a meal, the bird is not much bigger…
Blue Grosbeak fledgling flies up to the top!
I’ve been watching the sumac hedge off and on for a few days to see if I could spot a baby. She seemed awfully…
What a fun, if very warm, day!
Yesterday, thinking the muted light would be great for photos, I headed out and with the light constantly changing, I soon forgot about the…
A couple of weeks with Northern Mockingbirds!
Lots of mockingbird nestlings, fledglings, and angry parents about just now. My story begins in Nyack NY, where a ripe plum in a playground…