I spent the morning yesterday with a friend, Dave Levy, who does most of his birding along the coast. I was afraid there might…
Hudson, NY, Aug. 15
After a wonderful breakfast visit with my dear friend, Barbara Govatos, I went to a lovely nature preserve where I saw a million Goldfinches,…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…