Filed Under Fall 2007
The Delaware Bay beach was host to a variety of shorebirds tonight, feasting on horseshoe crab eggs. Red Knots, Semipalmated Plovers and Willets were the three most abundant species present.
Filed Under Fall 2007
I am in Connecticut this weekend and found this wildflower and fungus in the woods this afternoon. Can anybody tell me what the flower is?
Filed Under Bluebirds, Fall 2007, Winter 2009
This Bluebird was taking in the sights this afternoon at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Filed Under Fall 2007
It snowed this evening and I went out into the woods behind my house to light up the snow as it fell through the trees.
Filed Under Fall 2007
This photo was actually taken in August. Looking back over some inages from the past year, this struck me as one I should share.
Filed Under Fall 2007
It is appropriate, I suppose, to post the last sunrise and sunset of the calendar year on New Years Eve. The sun rise was “sailors take warning”, red sky and calm wind. The front came through and the sunset was a “sailors delight”.
Filed Under Fall 2007
Earlier this fall I was able to watch a flock of Forster’s Terns work a school of bait fish just before sunset. Here is a two-photo sequence of one concentrating on its prey and then banking off of the headwind to swoop back around into position.
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.
