Monthly Archives: July 2023

This will be a short report. The day is beautiful, and the park looks refreshed after all the rain we got yesterday afternoon, but the critters seemed to be going about their business with a renewed sense of urgency, so pictures were hard to come by. Luckily, this catbird picked a nicely exposed and sunnyContinue reading “The sun returns after a good soaking…”

Well, it took me three tries, twice yesterday and once again this morning, to get some pictures worth showing, and here they finally are: The wood duck hen on the pond, who started with ten ducklings just two weeks ago, is down to only four, and here they are all in a row. I alsoContinue reading “Happy 5th of July!”

Ah, that’s more like it! The smoke and humidity have moved on, and we had blue skies this morning like I haven’t seen in weeks. I was able to take advantage of it right away at the south end when a ruckus amongst the crows distracted this one enough from evading me for a moment.Continue reading “I can see clearly now, the haze is gone…”

The clouds were thick again this morning, so I waited until 8am, at which time I figured I had as much light as I was going to get, so into the park I went. The first treat for me was this perfect arrangement of wood ducks on a rock in the river. Just upriver fromContinue reading “At last…”

It was a dark and dreary morning, and the best chance I had for a decent picture were big birds out in the open, so here they are. At the pond, the wood duck hen with two ducklings was feeling confident enough in their evasive abilities to bring them up onto the west lawn, probablyContinue reading “A slow start to the holiday weekend…”