Author Archives: Andrew Dressel

The weather was beautiful in Estabrook Park this morning, and I didn’t have any errands to run, so I got there nice and early. So early, in fact, that my camera outright refused to focus on the quartet of deer I found at the sand volleyball court across from the southern parking lot. I satContinue reading “Another straggler…”

Sorry for the late post, but my computer has been in the shop since I dropped it off at 6:30 this morning, and I was only able to pick it up around 2:30 this afternoon. Anyway, the skies were pretty clear this morning, at least off to the south and east, so I was ableContinue reading “Time for a closeup at last…”

What a curious morning it was. The weather was nice enough, with seasonably cool temps, a bit of a breeze, and crystal-clear skies, but the critters were few and far between for some reason. On my first swing by the pond, there wasn’t a single bird on the water, and it wasn’t even frozen over,Continue reading “A curious morning…”

The sun we were promised this morning still hasn’t arrived, but perhaps I should be thankful for the thick blanket of clouds that kept this morning from being even colder than it was. Still, a little more light would have been nice. Anyway, the great blue heron we saw yesterday must have slept in todayContinue reading “Where is that confounded sun?”

Here are the top three sights I saw in Estabrook Park this morning. At number three, the great horned owl, who has been a semi-regular fixture for the last five weeks or so, was in again, and in almost exactly the same spot as yesterday. At number two, a great blue heron was back andContinue reading “A sign of sights to come, with any luck.”

The expected change in the weather arrived overnight, and it was dark and rainy when the sun was supposed to rise this morning. Luckily, I only had to wait a couple of hours for the rain to let up, and then into the park I went. When I got to the bottom of the stairsContinue reading “A trio of predators…”

Our little streak of nice weather continued this morning in Estabrook Park, and so the sky was clear, and the temps were mild, but the stiff breeze out of the southwest suggests change is on its way. The raptor de jour is this red-tailed hawk perched high over the northern island, right where the merlinContinue reading “Enjoy it while it lasts…”

Ahhhh. That’s more like it. A sunny day at last, after seeing on the news last evening that we haven’t had one yet in December. With a decent twilight, I was able to get out nice and early, and the sun was just poking through the trees by the time I reached the pond. TheContinue reading “A nice change of pace…”

The skies were dark over Estabrook Park again this morning, and perhaps that tricked this muskrat on the pond to be out and about well after its usual bedtime. I tried walking upriver atop the bluff this time, to save me from backtracking for better eagle pictures, but the eagles saw right through my ployContinue reading “A whole lot of breakfast going down…”

The snow never arrived, and so Estabrook Park looked pretty much the same this morning as it did yesterday. The surprise for the day came early, on my first visit to the pond, when I watched not just one, but two muskrats steam towards their burrow in the eastern shore. Here’s the second one whoContinue reading “Rinse and repeat…”