What a great shot of the kinglet! Happy Anniversary 🎂
Happy Anniversary, Andy! So grateful to have found your blog and gotten to know other birders as you kindly guide…
Wow. Wow. Wow! And I’ve loved every day of being part of it. Thanks, Andrew, Jean
Congratulations on a wonderful accomplishment! We are so grateful a friend told us about your website and look forward to…
Hi Andy! Congrats on your entertaining and inspiring blog. (I’m the visitor from Michigan who joined one of your walks…
Congratulations, Andy! I have so enjoyed your beautiful photos and your enthusiasm for the great outdoors!
Thank you! We not only enjoy your pictures but enjoy reading your words of descriptions and explanations. You are a…
Love seeing the first chipmunk almost as much as seeing the first robin! Welcome Spring!!
No dancing today, but the little stinker sure could run fast when it wanted to.
No kidding a woodcock!?! Dang I’ve heard them twice here in CT, but I haven’t laid eyes on them eyes…
Seems like your feathered friends missed you while you were gone!! Bravo for marvelous photos of beautiful birds!!
Great question! I asked Dr Google, and found this website https://www.tintinthesquirrel.com/post/ear-tufts-hair which claims: “First and foremost are they used for…
I wonder what natural selection circumstances led to the exciting!!! exclamation points on his ears!!!
Of course I remembered…
Merci beaucoup!!!
Fantastic 😍
Andrew!! Thank you for the blue tit photo!! It made my day! I appreciate your remembering (assuming that you did,…
Awesome collection 👍👍👍
Just a little farther east…
Are you heading to Connecticut? Marilyn
Thank you, both!!!
Great photo!
Another great morning. Nice selection of images, too.
WOW!! Nice work, Mr Dressel.
Awesome.
I liked this post a lot. I’ve often wondered how many shots you take to frame up the one you…
Well done Andrew on those young hawk photos. Each one better than the last, but all good. We are so…
Superb photos as usual, Andy! Those tiger herons are gorgeous! And that young black-crowned night heron you caught with the…
It’s amazing what you see. -Vinka
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Many thanks for all the posts from this trip and your tireless efforts to keep up while on the ground…
First I was sucked in by the eye catching headline. Then captivated by the story of life and death. Finally,…
Muchas gracias!
Good Luck!
Really enjoying seeing the pics from your forays out into the frigid tundra, Andy! Watching that Dipper was the cherry…
Thank you very much Andrew, for your daily reports and pictures.For oldies like us,who no longer are ab
THESE ARE LOVELY PICTURES FROM MANY NATIONAL PARKS VISITED IN THE PAST YEAR. I REALLY ENJOYED THE LITTLE VIDEO ON…
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Wow Andy – super shots of your varied subjects!! You really had some action out there! 😀
Andrew, you are doing great! J.
Nice shots. That Northern Flicker is beautiful and so are those Bluebirds. Nothing that colorful in my pat of the…
Hey! I have a late start at work tomorrow and may head down to grant park. Could you give me…
Andy, wow~! I didn’t know there were two such similar birds! Thank you, Jean
It’s a good way to start the New Year to learn there’s a creature with the wonderful name, “Great Spangled…
Jean, Yes, Melanerpes carolinus, males certainly do have “a red cap going from the bill to the nape,” while “females…
I appreciated your Jupiter with moons image. I no longer have an adequate western celestial view. Thank you, Andy. Kathy…
Dear Andrew, can you please tell me why it’s called a “Red Bellied” woodpecker, when clearly it’s a “red-headed woodpecker,”…
A very good year to come for all of us! -Tamar Loewenberg
Andrew… thanks a year of wonderful pictures and informative nature walks
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Beautiful photos as usual, Andy! Wow – a Carolina Wren – how special!!! Merry Christmas – I look forward to…
Dear Andrew, the photos on your blog are appearing much larger and clearer than before, when you were experimenting with…
Greg, Sorry about that. I don’t know what I did wrong, but I’ve replaced the link with a fresh one.…
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WOW!!!! Magical indeed!! So glad you made the trip – such a beautiful creature, and that background scenery is stunning!…
it seems that the video is not available.
Thank you again.
Thank you for braving the cold. Wonderful finds. The bigger photos in particular look like watercolors.
Please read my explainer at https://signsoflifeinestabrookpark.net/images/
What a great variety. I can hear the eagle duo from the photos alone. I particularly like the golden-crowned kinglets.
why are all your pictures double?
So cool that you caught the bald eagles – WOW! Funny that the juvenile showed up as well – wonder…
Thanks, Andrew – the new link worked as intended! Diane
Argh! Sorry about that. I had no idea that simply letting the next short play would change the URL. Thanks…
Thanks for another fun vicarious bird hike, Andrew! Unfortunately, your link to the bald eagle duo points to some unrelated…
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There are no words! Except there are! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! What a GIFT!!!!
Very cool!!
Beautiful. (your pictures are arriving in duplicates)
Look forward to your post every day. Thank you so much.
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hi Andy. Two pictures were on your blog again today. This time the second one was elongated. we’re currently at…
I can see the photos without distortion.
Wow – what a day!! Nice to see the coyotes, and that picture of the kingfisher is especially beautiful!! And…
Wonderful photos! Thank you so much for posting for others to enjoy
Andrew, Hello and welcome back. Emily and I are coming back from birding
Sleep well!
HI Andrew, I had a similar deer experience today in Lincoln Park, just west of the golf course: a buck…
Nice pics today, Andy. I’m sure someone has already told you that there were two of each picture. Technology!! See…
[…] of swans quietly flying over Lake Michigan. No calls, no good looks, they remain Swan, sp. Andy of Signs…
All wonderful shots, Andy, even though they weren’t from Estabrook Park! Could you hear me laughing out loud at the…
The top photo is quite elongated on my iPhone. “Here’s a white-whiskered puffbird embedded with WordPress’s “Flickr embed” block.” Thanks…
Hi Andrew- I’m not sure any of my comments will be helpful but, If you’re looking for feedback, all 4…
Ah – so nice to have it properly render on my phone now! I had gotten used to waiting until…
The second images are not at all distorted! Thanks for that.
hi Andrew. The first image of both birds was the best but really all worked. Thanks for all of your…
Welcome home, Andy and Custom HTML works for me. Thank you for figuring this out and now I will stop…
FYI, I have to click on these images to get them to appear. Most of the time the images are…
Hi, I may have spoken too soon! On a return to re-view today’s post, the wonderful images themselves, rather than…
Not only do the images embedded via the WordPress custom HTML block have the correct aspect ratio, they’re also much…
Hi, Just received the new post on my iPhone and can report that pics in today’s post appear only as…
Hey Andy, On my laptop all of the images look great but on my phone the “Flckrembed” images are distorted…
Hi, The first of each pair of photos (in both portrait and horizontal formats) is distorted (laterally compressed) when displayed…
I believe it may be the case that in today’s SOLIEP, it is the first time the wonderful sentence: “Here’s…
Hi Andy,The custom html fixed the issue for me
Custom HTML looks better but the first picture only shows up as a link. Welcome back. Your trip and pictures…
The second images all look best on my phone. Usually I have to look at them on my laptop if…
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