Simple Clicks – Spotted Sandpiper
Been a while since I’ve seen one of these guys. Meet the Spotted Sandpiper, another uncommon visitor to our region. Fords Pond seems to attract them from time to time, since the last one stopped over here also. They’re cute little birds but are usually skittish, like most plovers. Close approaches are out of the [...]
Simple Clicks – Miscellanious Wildlife
The past couple of weeks have been a wildlife extravaganza. Having a kayak hasn’t just given me the ability to get out on the water, it’s given me an access and approach-ability to a wide range of wildlife that I’d never be able to work with otherwise. I’ve posted about some of them, and will be talking [...]
Red-Winged Blackbirds
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post on just one species, but after the past couple of weeks I’ve found that my “to be shared” folder is filled with photos of a couple different individuals, and this seemed the best way to get them out there. So we’ll start with the ubiquitous lake and [...]
Who cooks for you?
“Who cooks for you?” is the bird-book description of the Barred Owl’s call. I’m not sure who comes up with these descriptions/translations, but I don’t usually find them too accurate. All that is beside the point, however, because the real meat of today’s post is that I have finally, after years of hoping, see and [...]
Sapsucker in the Spring
With the return of the birds in the spring migration, I made a run up to Sapsucker Woods a couple of weekends back to check in and see what was flying about. Sapsucker Woods is one of my favorite places to photograph and I make several trips there each year between spring and autumn. [...]
Simple Clicks – Mockingbird
Another first for my life list came along in the past couple of weeks: the Northern Mockingbird. The first one was a lucky catch, as he was perched on the sign up at Fords on the morning that I found the Bluebirds. I saw him in silhouette and realized he was something new and was [...]
Osprey Encounters
There are Osprey at Fords Pond now and it’s been nothing short of incredible to get to watch them there. I’ve known they were in the area for several years now; I’ve had fly-overs up at Lackawanna State Park and even seen them perched in trees across the lake a few times. But I’ve never [...]
Simple Clicks – the Bluebird of Happiness
Just a couple more images to share from my birding last Saturday, and specifically the Eastern Bluebird pair I was able to work with. They were very accommodating for birds, perching on branches that were well within lens range and even mugging for the camera a little. Related Posts:Simple Clicks – Ruby-crowned KingletSimple Clicks – [...]
Spring birding with the Olympus 75-300mm
It’s taken six months, but I’ve finally been able to take the Olympus m.Zuiko 75-300mm into the field for some solid birding work. It’s the first good evaluation I’ve been able to make of it under these conditions; birding was the main reason I bought it, but my timing was off, with it arriving at [...]
Early Spring Birding
With several days to myself this weekend, I was able to get out into the field for some early spring birding. Not as much as I would have liked; the weather was pretty bleak for all by one day, which makes it difficult. My kingdom for a 300mm f/4 lens for the m4:3 system, as [...]
