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…
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…
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…