The many aspects of this remarkably malleable bird. As he sits on a stump waiting for a meal, the bird is not much bigger…
Juvenile Yellow-Crowned Night Herons
In the water, trees and skies, night herons everywhere. Speckled and streaked with beautiful red/orange eyes and the Mama close by, they were fun…
Fiddler Crabs
Called such because the one long and one short claw looked to someone like a crab playing the fiddle! Here are some shots of…
Ospreys in Milford, CT
Lots of Ospreys flying about. I didn’t see them diving for fish. I believe they were pulling them from the water as the herons…
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…
Glossy Ibises
In the marsh and in the air
Maine Snowy Egrets in a Portland neighborhood
We rarely see these egrets down in the Pioneer Valley of central Massachusetts so it was fun to watch them in the marshes near…
Coyote Spotting
In a freshly mowed field off the bike path in Amherst, a coyote strolls along. I wasn’t sure that it mighty not just be…