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A Visit with the Herons, Aug. 15

So many birds finally – hard to choose whom to focus on at the marsh yesterday at dinner time. For the Green, it was…

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Published August 16, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged great blue herons, green herons, Norwottuck rail trail
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Fledgling Song Sparrow

August 12 Let’s face it, babies are cute and there’s no getting around the cuteness factor in this little one!

Published August 12, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged birding, cute birds, fledglings, sparrows
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How an Egret can cheer up a gloomy day

I feel like I’ve been doing a lot of subtle weather complaining. The brilliant white of these birds can be a challenge on a…

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Published August 12, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged beautiful birds, egrets, marsh birds
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Some days the dragonflies are more interesting than the birds!

Aug 6th I got tired of looking for birds that weren’t there and it turns out that my amazing 400mm 2.8 lens also has…

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Published August 12, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged dragonflies, flying insects, marsh insects
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What the Marsh yielded on a HOT mid-day

The birding was slow! I was about to give it up when a Kingfisher made a very brief appearance – about as long as…

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Published August 11, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged herons, kingbirds, kingfishers, marsh birds
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The sweet Cedar Waxwings

These guys are everywhere I look these days. On a quiet overcast morning in Suffield, CT along the Windsor Locks Canal, we passed through…

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Published August 10, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged birds feeding birds, cedar waxwings
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What the garden yielded today

Aside from a lot of mosquitoes, there are beautiful flowers but very few insects. Year for year, and I have photos to prove this,…

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Published August 9, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged busy bees, garden flowers, zinnias
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Back on the Rail Trail

Just as I got to the marsh on the trail yesterday, a guy pedaling by on his bike said, “The Great Blue is posing…

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Published August 9, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged great blue herons, green herons, juvenile red-bellied woodpecker, Phoebe
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Walking along the Connecticut River bank

This was a day with little birds. The Baltimore Oriole surveying the beautiful scene; the Cedar Waxwings with their ruby-pearled wingtips and yellow paint…

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Published August 7, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged Baltimore oriole, bird portraits, catbird, cedar waxwing, goldfinch, kingbird, song sparrow, willow flycatcher
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The Indigo Bunting, finally!

For the last 2 years, I’ve been hearing about Indigo Buntings. It became an obsession of mine to spot one. People saw them in…

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Published August 7, 2021
Categorized as Western Massachusetts BirdingTagged hummingbird, indigo bunting
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Hello, and welcome. My name is Marjorie Melnick. I am a senior lecturer at UMass/Amherst and an avid nature photographer. This blog documents my humble photo adventures, and I warmly invite you to follow along!

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