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I ventured out today looking for birds and got a lifer! An American Woodcock. Must add a new page to my PowerPoint.
Funny looking thing and it walks funny too.
Funny looking thing and it walks funny too.
Two Great Blue Herons in formation.
Not a great shot but a lucky shot! A pair of Peregrine falcons are nesting in a box on top of the library tower at Umass. A chance shot of one flying out of the nest box.
I was standing around about here when I took the photo. The box is on the top right of the tower.
There is a falcon-cam if anyone is interested.
www.library.umass.edu
I was standing around about here when I took the photo. The box is on the top right of the tower.
There is a falcon-cam if anyone is interested.
Falcon Cam
I was just watching the Falcon Cam and an adult was feeding the chick.
Out for a bike ride at the state park and I got pictures of a Northern Water Snake crossing the pond.
It looks quite large. It's riding high in the water. I wonder if they can suck air into their bodies to float so high.
It made me laugh when I looked at the Wiki story on these nonvenomous snakes.
"The common watersnake can grow up to 135 cm (4 ft 5 in) in total length (including tail)." Made me wonder where you start to measure the tail from on a snake
It looks quite large. It's riding high in the water. I wonder if they can suck air into their bodies to float so high.
It made me laugh when I looked at the Wiki story on these nonvenomous snakes.
"The common watersnake can grow up to 135 cm (4 ft 5 in) in total length (including tail)." Made me wonder where you start to measure the tail from on a snake
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From its anus.Out for a bike ride at the state park and I got pictures of a Northern Water Snake crossing the pond.
It looks quite large. It's riding high in the water. I wonder if they can suck air into their bodies to float so high.
It made me laugh when I looked at the Wiki story on these nonvenomous snakes.
"The common watersnake can grow up to 135 cm (4 ft 5 in) in total length (including tail)." Made me wonder where you start to measure the tail from on a snake
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Leave it to Chester to find wildlife. He was going nuts on the front window birdie-vision (if we filled the feeders (too many squirrels)). But he was very excited and was pawing the window.
We took a look at what had Chester so excited. There is a blue jay nest right outside the window in the rhododendrons. That looks like it's a hatched chick.
I went out to the front step. Mommy or Daddy is now sitting on it. I guess to protect it from predictors since I think it's already hatched. There are loads of gray squirrels, chipmunks, grackle and other critters that I think would eat a chick if it had the chance. I've even seen coopers hawks in those bushes.
We took a look at what had Chester so excited. There is a blue jay nest right outside the window in the rhododendrons. That looks like it's a hatched chick.
I went out to the front step. Mommy or Daddy is now sitting on it. I guess to protect it from predictors since I think it's already hatched. There are loads of gray squirrels, chipmunks, grackle and other critters that I think would eat a chick if it had the chance. I've even seen coopers hawks in those bushes.
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We gots pelicanz!
Saw five white pelicans while walking Wonder (the dog) around a small lake.
Hard for me to understand how they can make a living here … this lake is at about 7500’ altitude and 75% of it is too shallow for a pelican to dive in. Yet, they look real healthy …
At 5:47am this morning i got an alert from the cameras at my parent,s old house.
A coyote heading up the driveway.
A coyote heading up the driveway.
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Nah, just birdwatching.
There are coyotes around my house but my only two sighting are at my parents house and those two include the virtual one above. Kinda funny odd strange weird.
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I've only seen one coyote in my lifetime. On my way out to work at the local airport at dusk. He was a big one too.
The guys at the airport have never seen one but hear them all the time at night.
The guys at the airport have never seen one but hear them all the time at night.
A Spruce Grouse today and a chick.
My last photo of a spruce grouse was on 35mm film!
These were taken on Schoodic Head, the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park.
My last photo of a spruce grouse was on 35mm film!
These were taken on Schoodic Head, the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park.
I was bike riding the carriage roads along Jordan Pond in Acadia and spotted a dot in the water.
It turned out to be a Loon and then it decided to fly! I've never seen a loon take flight before.
These were taken at 2730mm in 35mm equivalent and about in the middle of the lake in the last photo.
Loons have solid bones unlike other birds and need a long runway.
The loon photos are cropped. The lake isn't.
Also a family of common mergansers on Eagle Lake,
It turned out to be a Loon and then it decided to fly! I've never seen a loon take flight before.
These were taken at 2730mm in 35mm equivalent and about in the middle of the lake in the last photo.
Loons have solid bones unlike other birds and need a long runway.
The loon photos are cropped. The lake isn't.
Also a family of common mergansers on Eagle Lake,
A juvenile bald eagle in a tree down by the shore from the house
