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The weather has been sunny and warm for several days and I have accumulated a large selection of photos. I’ll break them up into three posts, starting with some newly arrived summer residents. Before I get into the summer residents, I have to share these pictures of a year round bird, the Barred Owl. TheContinue reading “Summer Residents”

More varieties of warblers have been spotted in the past week. Here are six that I photographed. The male Rose-breasted Grosbeak is colorful but this one was a bit shy. The female wasn’t reluctant to show off her fine plumage though. The Eastern Towhee male and female are a bit more similar looking. The female’sContinue reading “2021 Migration IV”

I’ve had two productive outings in the past few days, including the one with the owl encounter. Time to share some of the bounty. I hadn’t even gotten out of the parking lot and on to the trail at Oxbow NWR when I got this picture of a male American Redstart. This pretty warbler wasContinue reading “2021 Migration III”

I interrupt my series of migration photos for a short action sequence. Smaller birds often gang up on a larger bird, particularly a predator. This is especially true during breeding season when they do not want such a bird anywhere near their nesting sites. The smaller birds are usually a little too quick for theContinue reading “Mobbing an Owl”

These photographs were taken on a nice sunny spring morning walk with three friends in a wildlife management area. It was a windy day and the birds were quiet but we did have some nice sightings, including another two species of warbler for me to photograph. This is a Blue-winged Warbler that was foraging amongContinue reading “2021 Migration II”

Warblers are slowly beginning to appear. There have been strong northwest winds in the past weeks and that may have slowed their arrival. But other migrants are showing up. I got my feeder out just a week before the first hummingbirds came to my home. Our summer resident hummingbird is the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. The malesContinue reading “2021 Migration”

I have been setting aside some photographs for a “rainy day” post, something to share when I don’t get a chance to get out with my camera. What follows are a few of the many photos from a trip to Texas in February 2019. It was a Massachusetts Audubon group tour that went from CorpusContinue reading “Gulf Coast and the Rio Grande”

The last few days of April will be wet so it is a good time to post some final photographs from the month. The rain is appreciated though. Most of New England is having a bad drought at the moment. We are waiting for the influx of warblers that we typically see in late AprilContinue reading “Closing out April”

The weather forecasts were totally off today. But in a good way. It was sunny instead of cloudy and rainy so I made a spur of the moment trip to the Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge. My luck with the weather spilled over to my field trip. There are always Wood Ducks at Oxbow but theyContinue reading “Oxbow NWR – Ducks in Trees”

We are in an interlude between outgoing and incoming migrants. There are still a few winter residents like Snowy Owls that haven’t moved north yet. And only the first of the summer residents and the birds that pass through on their way north have arrived. Hummingbirds are coming close and warblers, the big stars ofContinue reading “Interlude”