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It’s time to return to reality after the warm weather photos and memories in the previous posts and face the persistent winter of 2020-21. There have been a few brief periods of relative warmth but winter isn’t quite ready to move along yet. These pictures are from a couple of outings in the past week.Continue reading “Back to Winter”

We saw so many old favorites and new discoveries on our pre-Pandemic Florida expedition that I had a hard time picking out pictures. What follows are just a few of them. And I must add some non-avian residents.

A year ago, during the first week of March, I was with a group of fellow birders and photographers on a trip organized by Massachusetts Audubon to visit sites in southern Florida. We returned home less than two weeks before things started shutting down. Seems like a lot more than a year has passed. AndContinue reading “Before the Pandemic, Part 1”

A friend and I took advantage of the only sunny day last week to get out and explore. The sun was nice but the very gusty wind made for a bitterly cold morning. Even the birds were generally hunkered down but there always seems to be something for us see. At our first stop, anContinue reading “Cold Day”

We are about half way through a cold and stormy February with hopes for a quieter and slightly warmer final week of the month. These are some photos I took last week during a lull in the weather action. There is a large flock of Snow Buntings wintering at the state park in Salisbury MA.Continue reading “Some February Birds”

Two days after the recent Nor’easter, I was on the Gloucester coast. The ocean had calmed slightly and the air was clear, as evidenced by these photos. That’s Boston almost 30 miles across the Massachusetts Bay. I was using my 420mm lens setup. This was one of those times I wish I had my backupContinue reading “After the Storm, Day 2”

February started off in traditional February fashion with a big Nor’easter. I don’t know what the official snowfall total was for my town but I had to shovel 16 inches so that is official for me. The storm was still churning away in the Gulf of Maine when I went out the next day. TheContinue reading “After the Storm, Day 1”

January is coming to a close with the coldest temperatures of the winter. So it is a good time to stay inside and post some final pictures of the month. The highlight of the past week was seeing roosting Long-eared Owls. I was able to get some photos with my long lens without infringing onContinue reading “Closing out January with an Owl”

Flocks of Red Crossbills (with a few White-winged Crossbills), Common Redpolls and Snow Buntings have taken up winter residence in the large campgrounds of the Salisbury State Reservation on the north side of the mouth of the Merrimack River. The winter populations of these birds vary from year to year and they are high thisContinue reading “Crossbills, Redpolls and a Hungry Loon”

These photos are from two recent trips to Cape Ann (Gloucester and Rockport MA) I made in the past week. The first was with a regular birding companion. It was a cloudy morning and we just beat the rainstorm that started around noon. There was a lot to see despite the gloomy conditions. Red-breasted MergansersContinue reading “Return to Cape Ann”