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 [...]
A few simple clicks
Got a half day at work on Friday, following two days called off due to snow, so suffice to say that last week was an easy one. I headed for the hills Friday afternoon looking for some solitude and hopefully a good click or two before a weekend spent with visiting family. My usual haunts [...]
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. [...]
Bird Studio – Feeders
As my project to build a backyard bird studio gets underway, the first step is finding a bird feeder, because they’re not going to just show up on their own and twitter, “Hey, we’re here!” (Of course, this presupposes that you have a location for the feeder; if not, then you’re SOL.)
My mom had [...]
Backyard Bird Photography
Over the past six months I’ve devoted a lot of my photographic energy to tackling bird photography. It’s a field that I find very rewarding and continue to have a lot of fun with, to the extent that I’ve adjusted some of my equipment to meet its specific conditions.
What hasn’t changed, however, is that [...]
Fords in the afternoon
With rain forecast for Sunday, Saturday afternoon was spent back out doors, up at Fords with my photography buddy Paul & his wife, Chris. The plan was mostly to enjoy the sunshine and hopefully come across some birds, although they few that were there played a winning game of hide-and-seek until we finally gave up [...]
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 [...]