I have been traveling quite a bit recently and have not taken many new photographs of nature. I had a nice morning today and have two to show from Primehook National Wildlife Refuge and one from just outside the refuge. The Turkey Vulture was sunning itself on the edge of some woods in Sussex County. The Red-winged Blackbird and the Canada Goose family were enjoying a morning in the refuge.
Filed Under Fall 2007, Hawks, Spring
I watched this hawk this afternoon as he sat on a wire patiently watching for mice in the wheat field below him. A lunge, a catch and then time to enjoy. It doesn’t get much better than that if you’re a hawk. I watched him get three mice in about 15 minutes.
Filed Under Fall 2007, Scenics, Spring
I went to one of my favorite sunset spots tonight, Cape Henlopen. I wasn’t disappointed.
The low, wet areas around Delaware are full of new Skunk Cabbage. The broad green leaves are a site as late afternoon sun spotlights them.
Filed Under Fall 2007, Spring, Squirrels
We have bird feeders behind our house that attract (surprise, surprise) Eastern Gray Squirrels during the day. Here one stops between mouthfuls to scratch at an incredible speed. What may be a real surprise is that after the sun goes down and the Gray Squirrels bed down for the night, Southern Flying Squirrels visit the same feeders. They are quick and very difficult to photograph in action, but I caught one last night as he prepared to leap from the tree to the feeder. I’ll work on photgraphing one flying and will post it as soon as I succeed.
Filed Under Fall 2007
On Saturday morning there was a thick coating of hoar frost in a field in Primehook Wildlife Refuge. This formed in an early morning fog while the temperature was below freezing. Ice crystals covered all of the vegetation in the field, a beautiful site.
