Author Archives: Andrew Dressel

I had to skip yesterday so I could participate in the UPAF Ride for the Arts, but I’m back today, and it was surprisingly dark this morning. Perhaps there was a big cloudbank over the lake blocking the low sun. In any case, the dim light seemed to subdue the critters, and I don’t believeContinue reading “Plus eight more…”

Perhaps everyone is getting a little tired of the amazing streak of fabulous weather we’ve been experiencing and the resulting need, real or imagined, to be out there enjoying it all the time because things were pretty quiet in Estabrook Park this morning. I didn’t see a single heron. Nevertheless, not everyone was sleeping in,Continue reading “Let’s all hope that eight is enough.”

I’ll keep this short, and it will probably still be riddled with typos because I don’t have access to my usual proofreader today. Oh well. Meanwhile, our streak of gorgeous weather continues in Estabrook Park, and the sun rises at 5:15 now, so that’s when I hit the trails because the early bird waits forContinue reading “June continues to delight.”

I received a comment about yesterday’s post from long-time reader, fellow crack-of-dawn trail walker, and sometimes blogger, Carrie, who mentioned that she had seen both a doe with her fawn and a wood duck hen with her ducklings on the pond yesterday. Sheesh! Where the heck had I been? Anyway, as I was stepping outContinue reading “June starts off with a bang!”

It was 60°F at 5:30 this morning when I arrived at Estabrook Park. Woo hoo! Summer really is here, at least for now, and it appears that all this warm weather has made the carp in the river feel quite frisky. They were really stirring up the water today. While I was trying to getContinue reading “A frenzy in the river…”

It seems that summer has arrived, at least psychologically and meterologically, if not yet astronomically, and I was happy to see that Estabrook Park looked hardly worse for the wear generated by the throngs of revelers enjoying a Memorial Day weekend with probably the nicest weather on record. Anyway, the lonely wood duck drake onContinue reading “Really starting to feel like summer…”

The wood ducks, who had been thick on the pond a month ago, have really cut back on that, and I only found this one sleepy fellow there this morning as the sun started to shine through the trees from the east. There were only a couple of blue herons on the river, but noneContinue reading “Happy Memorial Day!”

One of the great blue herons, and only one this time, as far as I saw, was back again this morning, and it caught another fish in exactly the same spot as yesterday. You might even think I’m pulling your leg, and that this is just another image from yesterday’s scene, but if you compareContinue reading “Thanks for the extra eyes!”

The first batch of robins are coming out of the oven, and here’s a fledgling looking as puffed up as it knows how and waiting for the sun to warm it up after a night out on its own. Luckily for it, this Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to be a beauty. Great blueContinue reading “Serveral more “firsts of the year””

Here are some pictures from my visit to Estabrook Park this morning. Green heron in tree over the pond. Mallard hen with ducklings on the river. Female belted kingfisher fishing over the river. Osprey fishing above the far riverbank. Great blue heron on a sandbar in the river. Killdeer foraging over exposed river bottom. MaleContinue reading “Some pictures from Estabrook Park”