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I don’t have to say much. It was a clear case of robbery and the thief got his snack. (Disclaimer: We were on an observation platform overlooking the beach so we did not have the opportunity to save the poor person’s lunch!)

I found this photo of a Peregrine Falcon taken in Salisbury, Massachusetts in 2018. They are a fairly large falcon and catch their prey in the air with amazing high speed dives. This one is perched on a utility pole near a large open marsh waiting for a duck or other marsh dwelling bird toContinue reading “Found in the Clutter – Peregrine Falcon”

The Pied-billed Grebe is a small, very compact water fowl. It has virtually no tail. I was once told to look in the reeds along the edge of a waterway for a duck with no butt. That would be a Grebe.

This is the time of year when Tree Swallows gather in flocks of thousands of individuals on the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. It is quite a spectacle and I have posted photographs from the event in the past. These are a few from this year. This is a small portion of a flock thatContinue reading “Tree Swallows Flocking”

I take some photos that don’t lend themselves to a theme post so I think I will just post some individual photographs that catch my eye and not try to have a theme with multiple photos or a lot of information. The first of these “snapshots” is a Least Bittern that is stalking its preyContinue reading “Snapshot – Least Bittern”

Black Skimmers are common along the Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts of the US. They do migrate a little further north along the coast in the summer, from the Carolinas up to the southern coast of New England. But they are a very uncommon sight north of Cape Cod. This photo was taken on theContinue reading “Found in the Clutter – Black Skimmer”

This was an occasion when it was good to have a camera. You have to have evidence! I was photographing egrets and shorebirds and took some photos of a juvenile Snowy Egret flying across the water. If it was an Osprey, I would think it was carrying its catch. But egrets don’t capture prey andContinue reading “What the Heck?”

This is a little update to the post I made a week ago about a Snowy Egret and a Yellowlegs foraging for food together. I noted that larger groups of egrets, yellowlegs and cormorants will work together to herd schools of fish. This is a small group of Snowy Egrets and Double-crested Cormorants chasing aContinue reading “Fishing Buddies – Update”

I photographed an Osprey as it flew overhead and dove into the water not far away. I captured the start of the dive but it hit the water behind some tall reeds and I missed the impact. It reemerged from behind the reeds with a good sized fish. This big one almost got away asContinue reading “Osprey…the big one didn’t get away”

Found while reviewing some photographs from a past trip. The Crested Caracara, sometimes called the “Mexican Eagle”, resides in Mexico, Cuba, Central America and South America. It shows up in a few small areas in Arizona, Texas and Florida. This one was photographed in Texas in 2019. It looks like a hawk but it isContinue reading “Found in the Clutter – Caracara”