Author Archives: Andrew Dressel

It took a while for the rain to turn to snow this morning, so I didn’t get into Estabrook until 10am. Happily, must critters were still up at that late hour, and I got to see quite a few. Conditions continue to be suboptimal for photography, however, so let’s see what images I managed toContinue reading “A good day for water birds…”

I couldn’t make it to Estabrook this morning, while the skies were grey but dry, and had to go around lunch time when the clouds started leaking. Most of the critters were busy today, and had no time for pictures, but there were a couple notable exceptions. Our two new favorite black-crowned night-herons were stillContinue reading “A short one…”

It was still raining when we woke up, but soon enough the big green radar blob drifted out over the lake and left us with a pretty nice morning in Estabrook Park. As usual these days, there were plenty of birds making rackets, but hardly anybody had time for my camera. This sparrow by theContinue reading “A morning of surprises…”

I didn’t get to Estabrook until nearly noon today, and I was happy to find that there were still plenty of critters up and about, but I didn’t get a picture until this handsome devil, a red-breasted merganser drake, came floating by at the southern island. When I approached the northern island, however, things reallyContinue reading “A bunch of little posers.”

The classic spring weather continues, but at least it wasn’t precipitating this morning, so good enough for a visit to Estabrook. The winter wrens are as thick as ever, and this one had bigger fish to fry than staying out of my sight. I don’t see the mallards in large groups on the river anymore.Continue reading “A Spring Classic!”

It wasn’t snowing this morning, and the winds were pretty light. Some sun would have been nice, but two out of three ain’t bad, or so the song goes, right? Anyway, I was glad to finally capture an image of one of the rabbits I’ve been seeing lately. There were plenty of brown creepers stillContinue reading “Another gray day…”

It was a dark and dreary morning, and then it began to snow like crazy. Luckily, it wasn’t too cold, I got out and back before the snow came, and the birds in Estabrook were as busy as usual. This little eastern phoebe, one of two I saw, was busily flitting from perch to perchContinue reading “It’s snowing so it must be April…”

The forecast sun never materialized, so it was a pretty gray morning, but not too cold, and the critters are stuck here anyway. It’s not like the birds are gonna say, “To heck with these gray skies, I’m flying back to the Gulf of Mexico.” Here’s one such bird on the quiet water below theContinue reading “No April Fools.”

I’m sure it went out like a lion for some of you, especially if you had to commute through the snow this morning. I, however, enjoyed riding my bike to campus through the snow, mostly on the bike path, and then Estabrook Park this afternoon was simply amazing, so March went out more like aContinue reading “March goes out…”

As I was studying all the green blotches on the current and future radar to see if there might be a dry patch this morning, Anne looked out the window and said, “It looks pretty dry right now,” so out the door I went, and I never felt a drop. Ha! The wood ducks wereContinue reading “A far nicer morning than I expected…”