The 2nd picture, not totally in focus, is only included to show that this was a hunting trip, going after a tasty morsel.
The Great Blue Heron
They will will soon be on their way to warmer parts. This one is looking like a dinosaur in the first shot, like part…
The mighty Lord Bald Eagle
He looked around until he spied me, and then he took off!
More Egret pictures! Can there be too many?
The little Snowy Egret and the Great Egret have been hanging about together every day. They are both amazingly beautiful birds! Here the Snowy…
Some days I happily turn my huge lens on the little butterflies!
Maybe you, too, have enjoyed watching the butterfly dance. Here it is in stopped motion. This Monarch kept coming back to the orange cosmos…
Quiet bird moment, welcome the dragonfly!
The Northern Flicker
This spectacular bird sports the typical woodpecker red on its head and spots on its front, but the tail feathers and underwing feathers are…
The female Northern Harrier
Not a summer bird around these parts, what fun to see them back this week, although it’s possible that there is just this one…
Little Sandpipers in the flooded fields.
I can’t say now which of these were the Greater and which the Lesser Yellowlegs. Hanging out next to each other it was obvious…
Egrets, Snowy and Great
Last year this time there were often well over 20 Great Egrets roosting in the trees in Longmeadow, MA at the Fanny Stebbins wildlife…