Monthly Archives: October 2023

Here’s a sight I don’t get to see everyday, even though they are year-round residents, a great blue heron in the snow.

Here an interesting one, if you haven’t seen it before, an American black duck, a drake by the looks of that yellow bill, hiding amongst the mallards.

One of my favorite parts of winter is the snow because it makes everything look nice. Here are a few of our year-round critters looking especially nice in the snow. A male northern cardinal. A female northern cardinal. A mourning dove And a red-tailed hawk

Buffleheads and hooded mergansers are nice, but how about this goldeneye drake? I can’t wait to see them again.

While I’m on the road, here’s another treat we might expect this coming winter. Sure, we see hooded mergansers from time to time, but we don’t often get to see them parked on the ice.

Welp, I already tipped my had last evening when I accidentally sent out “Travel Day 9” ahead of schedule. Anyway, as you have probably surmised by now, Anne and I are on the road again, and I’ve got my camera with me, but I don’t expect to have sufficient internet for a while, so I’veContinue reading “Travel Day Number 1”

If we get lucky, we might even get to see a gadwall drake again

Holy Mackerel! What a morning. There were a few clouds messing with my light now and then, but the good weather is mostly holding. The huge news, however, is that Estabrook Park has been swamped by new birds since yesterday morning. Right off the bat, there were dozens of dark-eyed juncos frantically foraging in theContinue reading “The birds go crazy in Estabrook Park!”

Well, it was great while it lasted, but the beautiful weather has drifted east, and we were greeted by clouds and a breeze in Estabrook Park this morning. As I made my way north along the path, I could hear a couple of chipmunks calling, but one sounded pretty close, so I took a look,Continue reading “A mix without rhyme nor reason…”

The beautiful weather continues, and it was another glorious morning in Estabrook Park. The first surprise came at the pond where I didn’t find a single wood duck for the first time since I don’t know when. Instead, I found about a dozen on the river around the northern island, and here are two hensContinue reading “Summer in October!”