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Bird Photography Weekly #120
Harlequin Duck - Histrionicus histrionicus PS - as always click on the photos to see larger versions!
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Bird Photography Weekly #121
Black Guillemot- Cepphus grylle PS - as always click on the photos to see larger versions! And to see some great bird photos from around the world, check out:
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Bird Photography Weekly #122
Merlin - Falco columbarius PS - as always click on the photos to see larger versions! And to see some great bird photos from around the world, check out:
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Bird Photography Weekly #123
American Kestrel - Falco sparverius PS - as always click on the photos to see larger versions! And to see some great bird photos from around the world, check out:
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Bird Photography Weekly #124
Trying to improve my results with photos of birds-in-flight, and this one from the past weekend appeals to me. It was not planned, I just noticed it flying towards me out of the corner of my eye while...
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Bird Photography Weekly #125
White-winged Crossbill - Loxia leucoptera PS - as always click on the photos to see larger versions! And to see some great bird photos from around the world, check out:
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Bird Photography Weekly #126
"Ispwich" Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis A subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow, and typically paler than the nominate, the "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrows breed in Nova Scotia, and can be...
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Back to the Superbowl of Birding
Yes folks, you heard right - the Bloggerhead Kingbirds are going back to the Superbowl of Birding. If you're from New England, or have followed this blog for any period of time, you might know about...
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Ecuador - Part 1
AKA - dreaming of the tropics. You see, I am currently sitting at home here in New England while yet another snowstorm dumps the white stuff outside, and although by 6am I have already shoveled over...
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Bird Photography Weekly #127
Quite a few photo opportunities this past weekend, but I seem to have been getting the most feedback from this series of Peregrine Falcons that we photographed Friday evening at Gloucester City Hall....
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Bird Photography Weekly #130
"Roseate Spoonbill - Platalea ajaja Been a few weeks since I posted anything, but I have good reason - we took a mid-winter break from the New England winter and spent a week birding and photographing...
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Common Redpolls
Not sure what the future of this blog will be. In case you haven't noticed, I've not really been keeping up with it much of late... I've not finished trip reports I've started (Ecuador from last...
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Hooded Merganser
Had a pretty good weekend of photography with some nice subjects. This Hooded Merganser was easily the most cooperative one I have ever encountered... "Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus PS - as...
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Pileated Woodpeckers
Last weekend, Pamela and I took a ride to find Bohemian Waxwings (a venture in which we were successful in seeing the birds, but unfortunately, no photos.) After seeing the waxwings and enjoying a...
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Yellow-legged Gull
The current "mega" that has been lighting up the local list-serv, a probable Yellow-legged Gull that was reported last week in Hyannis, MA and has been seen daily since. Doing a bit of reading up on...
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Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk
While the writing and posting here at the ol' PicusBlog has been slow lately, the birding (thankfully) hasn't been. Spring is now in full swing here in eastern Massachusetts, with a lot of early...
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Prairie Warblers are back
Each year, I spend a few evenings trying to photograph the Prairie Warblers that nest just a mile or so from where we live. This afternoon, I think I had my best "sitting" yet with these bright little...
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The Birds of Spring
If there is one family of birds that defines spring for me, it has to be the Wood-Warblers. These brightly-colored (mostly) sweetly-singing (usually) little gems that migrate back here from warmer...
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Least Bittern
Well, spring migration has pretty much wrapped up here in New England. The birds moving through to their breeding grounds in the northern boreal forests have done so. But that doesn't mean the...
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Indigo Bunting
Just some more photos from this spring to keep the blog afloat... As always, click the photos to see larger images. ('Original' size tends to look the best)
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Least Terns
Even though the time between posts here has been growing longer and longer, I've not yet given up hope that this is something that I will come back to regularly updating again. I simply have not had it...
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Stepping out for my 'peeps'
I took the opportunity of the holiday weekend to get out a bit for some birding and photography. I am working with a new piece of equipment - the Canon 500mm f/4L lens and I am absolutely loving it...
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American Avocet(s)
When we last left our dynamic birding duo (aka my wife and I) we had left Massachusetts's north shore about an hour before some really cool bids had been reported in in two different places. There...
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Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk Redux
Back in May, I posted about this bird, as well as a few pics. I've gone back to the same spot many times since then in hopes of seeing (and photographing) this individual again. Finally this past...
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Final post
Hello! As you can probably tell, I have not added anything to this blog for about a year, and for some time before that, posts were indeed very sparse. This message is to finally put a nail into the...
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