Category Archives: Uncategorized

I got off to a slow start in Estabrook Park this morning. It wasn’t raining very hard, but if I get any drops on my lens, I’m pretty much done for the day, so I waited out the precipitation. When I finally did venture in, I was happy to find plenty of critters still outContinue reading “Plenty of action on a rainy Wednesday.”

It was an odd morning in Estabrook Park. It was warmer than yesterday, but even darker, and breezy in unprotected areas. I did see most of the regulars, but nobody looked particularly photogenic today, I hadn’t seen any surprise guests, and I hadn’t even taken one picture by the time I started my way backContinue reading “Not one, not two, but three surprise guests!”

Anne and I are back from our travels, and I still have some pictures from the trip, but I was anxious to check on our friends in Estabrook Park this morning, so I’ll keep the rest of the trip pictures in my back pocket for one of the rainy days in our forecast. The sunContinue reading “Checking in to see who’s still here…”

On our last morning at the preserve, I got up at sunrise again to go see who I could find. One simple technique I have often used to spot birds is to look for big dark spots in trees, but that had been oddly unfruitful for me on this trip, until the last morning. ThisContinue reading “Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Day 4”

Here’s another shy little bird I found in the trees and bushes growing along the stream, and it is a southern yellow white-eye (Zosterops anderssoni). Near the white-eye, I got as close to a sunbird, a female double-collared sunbird this time, as I believe I ever managed. Atop the small bluff above the stream, I thoughtContinue reading “Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Day 3”

I can’t get the wifi here today, so I’m typing this on my phone, and all typographical errors are solely the fault of my thumbs. Anyway, here are a few more birds that Anne and I saw when we ventured deeper into the forest. This first amazing bird is an African paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis), andContinue reading “Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Day 2”

After Anne’s work was done in Lilongwe, we traveled to the nearby Dzalanyama Forest Reserve for a little R&R, and nearly as soon as we arrived, we were greeted by this amazing little red-throated twinspot aka Peters’s twinspot (Hypargos niveoguttatus) methodically foraging on the forest floor near our cabin. I was able to spot it inContinue reading “Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Day 1”

As amazing as it was to see the masked weaver I showed you yesterday, it wasn’t the only weaver to visit the guesthouse backyard in Lilongwe. I also spotted a Holub’s golden weaver (Ploceus xanthops), aka African golden weaver a couple of times, … and this super shy spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis) just once and for only aContinue reading “Backyard birds in Lilongwe, Part 2”

Anne and I finally do have good connectivity, so I can now start to show you some of the sights we’ve seen over the past 10 days. Our first stop was Lilongwe, in central Malawi, where I hung out in the backyard of the guest house in which we were staying while Anne traveled toContinue reading “Backyard birds in Lilongwe, Malawi”

I hope there isn’t a travel Day 11, but just in case, here’s my second favorite coyote encounter from back on January 28, 2022. I still can’t see this pictures without imagining this dialog between them. “Who’s that, Dear?” “Oh, just some dude I met, Darling. He seems harmless enough.” “Well, so long has he’sContinue reading “Travel Day 11”