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Spoiler alert and just a friendly warning, arachnophobes should skip this post/email! You can encounter all sorts of companions on the trails as you search for birds to photograph. I was photographing birds near the Rio Grande in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The area was a typical semiarid bosque (forest) environment that is common alongContinue reading “Found in the Clutter – Unusual Companion”

Sometimes a bird will appear somewhere far, far from its normal range. These are known as vagrants. Although I think adventurer has a nicer ring to it. An Ash-throated Flycatcher has been staying at a town conservation site consisting of a bit of a farm, community gardens and walking paths. The farm is about 1Continue reading “Rare Visitor: Ash-throated Flycatcher”

We are in the middle of a week of stormy weather with localized flash flooding, tree damage and power outages. There isn’t much chance of getting out with the camera for a while so I have to make do with reminiscing about drier times. A duck photograph seems very appropriate in this situation. These areContinue reading “Snapshot – Muscovy Duck”

This impressive looking bird with an impressive name is a relative of the Northern Cardinal. These photographs were among the many I took on a trip to New Mexico in January 2018. We stopped for lunch at a little roadside place in Caballo to dine al fresco and this male came and perched in aContinue reading “Found in the Clutter – Pyrrhuloxia”

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”