I must have gone several years without a decent heron picture. I would see them around but never close and never accessible. Then finally things seemed to take a turn for the better. A few times I would get one flying by pretty close, and in other instances, like this one, they would actually come … Read more
I have this weird, strange, odd-ball affinity for white birds. It’s hard to say why but there’s something about seeing them…sometimes on the most drab and lifeless days…but they fly by and the world seems lighter, brighter, and just a bit better. Pelicans, swans, any big old white bird will do..and anything that lightens up … Read more
Not everyone loves woodpeckers it seems. Log home owners are not often smitten. But say what you will about them, they put old broken down timber to good use. Actually now that I think about it, they have a lot in common with folks who live in log homes. I admire them both for having … Read more
“The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, – melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.” ~ William Beebe
It will be interesting to see if we have another banner year with the orioles in the backyard. 2019 was a stellar one for backyard birding in my neck of the woods. Perhaps it was the fairly consistent and abundant rains that helped. Vibrant, colorful, flowering trees were seemingly everywhere and the Orchard and Baltimore’s … Read more
You have to hand it to the eagle…sometimes they just aren’t picky. From observation, I think some birds prefer fresh fish…they’ll wait patiently for the right opportunity to hunt a live and floppy fish, plucked right from the water. In other cases, some individuals are a lot less finicky. Fish, long expired, but trapped in … Read more