Recent Posts Tagged With 'photo'

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 18:22 in travel, photo, photos, roadrunner, paisano

  Since I am going to be in Phoenix for business, I decided to take a few vacation days  to visit with some friends and go birding.  I have some target birds I hope to see, not the least among them are those pesky quails.  I will be going out with...

• Birding from the top of the Canopy Tower

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 15:13 in photo, panama, birds, birding, bird watching, sunrise, keel-billed toucan, canopy tower, blue continga, golden-hooded tanager

  With a view of the Panama Canal and the surrounding  forest canopy, the Canopy Tower is an incredible place to stand in the early morning light.  I climbed the narrow steps to pop my head above the hatch to see the vista open before me.  As I ...

• Lepidopterist Grammar Question

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 12:57 in photo, photos, butterfly, question mark, comma, local schmocal, hop merchant

  I stood next to the car  smearing on sunscreen.  My reflection shimmered in the heat in the dark-tinted windows of the car a few feet way.  I was leaning in my car to  stuff the bottle of sunscreen in the pocket of the door when I heard the h...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 06:27 in photo, photos, mustard, orange butterfly, local schmocal

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 05:13 in photo, photos, Turkey, wild, meleagris gallopavo

  I came across a nice flock of Turkeys with several displaying males.  The head color and warty wonderfulness was fantastic.  Ain’t he a looker. Check out this week’s Bird Photography Weekly for other hotties of the bird world. ...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 06:00 in photo, photos, willet

• Downy Woodpecker

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 03:57 in photo, winter, backyard, suet cage, downy woodpecker, picoides pubescens, carpintero velloso menor

  Have you ever seen this before?  Look at those 2, count them, 2, red patches.  When I first saw him, I thought maybe he was something else, but no, look at that small bill.  He is definitely a Downy; but a bird with a different sense of style. If ...

• Bird Photography Weekly-Bald Eagle

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 06:17 in photo, Fishing, photos, stories, nj, bald eagle, local schmocal, Águila de cabeza blanca, haliaeetus leucocephalus, wanaque reservoir

  Winter is a great time to look for Eagles.  We have them here in NJ on both the Delaware and Hudson Rivers as well as most reservoirs.  Many bird groups or Audubon Societies offer winter Eagle field trips.  Check it out and dress warm if you go. I...

• Bird Photography Weekly-Gray-headed Junco

  Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 07:00 in travel, photo, photos, nm, junco hyemalis, gray-headed junco, junco de cabeza gris

  I love that Juncos come in flavors.  Hmmmm, that sorta sounds like a Popsicle, but you know what I mean.  Here in the east, we have only one type of Dark-eyed Junco, the Slate-colored one.  But in the west, there are several colorful variations: O...

• Saturday birdwatching

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 17:09 in photo, photos, nj, neighbors, life bird, rarity, black-capped chickadee, local schmocal, carbonero de gorra oscura, poecile atricapillus, red crossbill

  There is chasing, and then there is chasing, and then there is the possibly getting a lifebird a few blocks from my house.  I got an email from the Director of Weis Ecology Center that she had a female RED Crossbill at her feeder.  Red?  Since she...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 16:01 in travel, photo, photos, tufted puffin, fratercula cirrhata

  The first and only time I saw Tufted Puffins I was so excited I grabbed the guy standing next to me (I am not so sure he was as completely enthralled as I was.) and started jumping up and down.  I had seen Atlantic Puffins in Maine and Nova Scotia, ...

• Skywatch-Baby Porcupine

  Posted on Friday November 21st, 2008 at 06:09 in travel, baby, photo, photos, porcupine, ak

  Hey, pull over!  What is that?  Over there, in that tree?  We all stared perplexed at the lump.  We got out of the car and crossed the road to get a better view.  Holy mackeral, it was a baby porcupine eating the twigs of a sapling willow.  It ...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 06:18 in travel, photo, photos, arizona, az, horned lark, eremophila alpestris, alondra cornuda

  Driving through the Arizona grasslands in search of quail, bunting, sparrows and longspurs; birds flushed from along the road to sit on rusty wire fences.  The most common bird by far was the Vesper Sparrow.  With those white tail flashes and its b...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 06:44 in photo, alaska, kachemak bay, birdfreak, red-faced cormorant, phalacrocorax urile, shorebird festival, cormorán de cara roja

  The 3rd edition of Bird Photography Weekly is up and the Birdfreak team wants your input.  Scour your photos, post it to your blog, then go leave a link.  Do it now. I give you a Red-faced Cormorant in breeding plumage taken on a boat trip during t...