Author Archives: Andrew Dressel

We had another cold morning today, but I had to go to school, so here’s more of the story from yesterday morning. The cold snap helped loosen many of the leaves that had still been clinging to their branches, and they were raining down all over the place. There was a little stream of brightContinue reading “More mentions of yesterday’s ice…”

The air temperature was below freezing in Estabrook this morning, and November is starting to act like it’s gonna stick around for a while. There was plenty of frost on the ground, the puddles were frozen over, the pond had ice around the edge, and there was even some ice along the riverbanks where theContinue reading “Ice sticks more of its foot in the door.”

I won’t have time to visit Estabrook this morning, and now I can blame it on the crazy late sunrise, at 7:28 am, so here are a couple of mysteries we can finally solve, instead. I’m sure they’ve been gnawing at you just as much as they have at me. The first mystery is thisContinue reading “Some more mysteries solved…”

It was literally a frosty morning in Estabrook. Temperatures didn’t get below the mid-thirties overnight, but the crystal clear skies allowed for enough radiant cooling for a nice coating of hoar frost to form on the grass and leaves. That’s our first frost for the season, I believe. Our resident osprey was in one ofContinue reading “November says “hi!””

You may have heard that there was a chance that the aurora borealis would be visible in Milwaukee last evening, and the skies were crystal clear, so Anne and I took a stroll through Estabrook to look for them. We didn’t see the northern lights, I am sorry to say, but we did see aContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”

It still looked dark as midnight out at 7am this morning, but the sun did eventually rise and poke through the clouds a bit, so I headed over to Estabrook to see if there was anyone around. I am happy to report that there sure was! It seemed that all the little birds forced toContinue reading “Pleasant surprises big and small.”

I didn’t make it to Estabrook before the rain started this morning, but I do have one more nice image from Wednesday. After capturing all I could of the osprey, I looked around on shore a bit and spotted a few golden-crowned kinglets foraging closer to the ground than usual. They were still just asContinue reading “Some kinglets are still here.”

Sorry that I’ve been away. My time and attention have been needed elsewhere. It seems that quite a few birds made like trees and leaved since the last time I’ve been in Estabrook. I saw a blue heron glide overhead as I approached the pond, but if it had stopped in, it would have beenContinue reading “There’s a new raptor in town!”

I had a hope of a little sliver of sun light this morning, so I hit the park nice and early to take advantage of it, if and when it came. When I got to the pond, I was pleasantly surprised to find a blue heron and a quartet of mallards, but no sun yet.Continue reading “Trying to make the most of what sunlight we have…”

I can see dawn trying to peak through the clouds, and the forecast is for partly cloudy skies for about an hour before the showers begin, but I’ve gotta go to campus, so we’re stuck with some more pictures from yesterday. Here’s another instance of a yellow-rumped warbler by the pond sitting still for aContinue reading “Wednesday, part 2”