Muskrats!
Went out this morning to feed Frederick before the snowstorm really hit – after all, I can’t leave the poor guy hungry with a foot of snow coming down! As I trudged out through the drifts, I could see multiple…somethings…sitting on the edge of the ice. My first thought was mallards; mallards hang out there [...]
Birds at the feeder
While my backyard bird feeder is still sitting empty – the local birds haven’t found it yet – the feeder at the Mongaup Falls blind was busy yesterday morning! I know that some bird photogs will say that shooting at a feeder isn’t purely “wild,” or some such thing. On one hand I can agree, [...]
Eagles – best day yet!
Getting back to Mongaup Falls just after sunrise required a 0545 wakeup call, but was totally worth it! Sadly, the activity at the Mongaup blind was mostly taking place down the lake, far out of range, and directly in the flare of the rising sun. The juveniles made a few passes up by the blind, [...]
Eagles
Since this will be about the last February weekend that I’ll be able to get out to Lackawaxen to see the Bald Eagles, I made a point to set the whole thing aside as potential eagle time. According to the literature, after February the eagles start to migrate back north, except for any nesting pairs. [...]
Eagles at Sunrise
Another amazing, glorious Saturday here. With days like this – especially mid-winter – I’m hell-bent on enjoying every last second of them, so I was up before the sun, mug of coffee in hand as I burned down the highway with Mandy sleeping in the passenger seat. An hour out to Lackawaxen put us on [...]
Afternoon – pretty hot
The morning may not have been the best, but I got back out after a late lunch. It was one of those mid-winter afternoons that you dream about; almost 50 degrees, no wind, bright sun in a clear blue sky. The snow is soft and melting, the critters are out and about, and the whole [...]
Morning – not so hot
Up this morning and out early with the promise that I’d be back in time to head south with Mandy to take her sister to see a performance. Not my favorite thing, being limited on time like that, but the forecast was for an amazing morning, so I figured that limited time in the great [...]
Eagle Watching
What brings a dozen people to a little parking lot along the banks of a half-frozen river? What makes them stand there in the wind and cold, or huddle in their cars, for hours on end? What makes them scan the sky and jump every time they spot the black dot of a bird [...]
New bird shots
I’ve spent the last several days out looking for birds. Songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, it doesn’t matter – any bird will do, so long as it’s within reach of my telephoto lens. This mission has several driving factors; using the new telephoto lens, enjoying the last days of my vacation, and adding new birds to my [...]
Frederick, again
Once more Frederick the Duck is my subject of the day. I got my hands on a new telephoto lens (review coming soon), and spent yesterday afternoon outside, post-snowstorm, trying it out. Subjects were limited, so one the way home I stopped by Abington to see what Freddy was up to – and of course [...]