The URL for this challenge is: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/2017-favorites/
This is my third and final submission.
The following photo has not yet been published previously.
31 Sunday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
inThe URL for this challenge is: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/2017-favorites/
This is my third and final submission.
The following photo has not yet been published previously.
30 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
inNot much snow fell, somewhat less than 2 in (5 cm), but the cold is staying with temperatures in the teens and twenties (-10 C to -5 C). Nothing is melting. Many birds came to our feeder, and I even saw a new one that was gray with black wings. It was too quick and only appears as a blur in a shot I took.
But Mr. Blue and Mr. Red were there of course and lingered long enough for me to photograph them leisurely.
Mr. Red especially took his time, even checking out the photographer several times.
A Tufted Titmouse patiently waited for its turn at the feeder.
28 Thursday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
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24 Sunday Dec 2017
Posted Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
inThe URL for this challenge is: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/2017-favorites/
Mute Swans were the favorites of many this past October. As the swans preened during a foggy morning, they struck poses that were bold and beautiful.
You may also be ineterested in two posts with more photos of the swans:
https://neihtn.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/beauty-and-the-fog/
https://neihtn.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/the-conductor/
23 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
inThe URL for this challenge is: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/2017-favorites/
In early May 2017, I went to Barnegat Lighthouse Park and walked the short (0.2 mi) Maritime Forest Trail looking for birds to photograph. Suddenly a red bird, a male Northern Cardinal flew by with a seed in his bill. He went to a branch on which a female was already perched and began to feed her in a gesture of love and courtship, as you can see in the following shots.
17 Sunday Dec 2017
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A female House Finch snatched a sunflower seed from the feeder and flew to join her younger ones on a branch of the magnolia tree. Curious as to why she would not eat it right away, I soon found out.
16 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
inThe following three kinds of birds are regular visitors to our feeder, especially when it snows like it did yesterday. Not much fell, less than 2 inches (5 cm), but enough to double my commute time and to cover everything with a white coat that has already melted by a half today.
Unlike the Juncos who only come in the winter, Carolina Chickadees live all year round in our area, and there may be more of them than of any other bird.
Then Blue Jays, of course, with their piercing jeers as they call one another.
16 Saturday Dec 2017
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inThe first one if not red all over, but the House Finch is one of the more dominant birds in our neighborhood. They are also not native to our area, but over the years have migrated from the West Coast to the East Coast.
A Northern Cardinal, all red except for some black patches around its beak, stands out especially well amid the whiteness of yesterday’s snow.
10 Sunday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
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blue jay, downy woodpecker, house finch, house sparrow, junco, northern cardinal, photography, postaday, tufted titmouse
Today skies are mostly sunny and snow is melting at a good pace. I took the opportunity to photograph the various birds that come to our feeder all day long.
Blue Jay, checking out the bird feeder. They rule the place and whenever they land, all other birds scatter away.
Finally, the one and the only Northern Cardinal, resplendent in colors rivaling its human counterparts in Rome.
09 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted Photography
inSnow fell today in our region for the first time this winter. We did not get much, maybe 4 inches (10 cm), but the sky was gray all day and although many birds came to our feeder I did not try to take their pictures. So here are a couple shots of a Northern Cardinal from last year, under similar weather. The banner shot is also from last year.
Northern Cardinal. Same guy, different pose.
03 Sunday Dec 2017
Posted EBF Refuge, Photography
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02 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
inThe link for this challenge is: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/serene/
Here are my entries for it, a sunrise photo taken in Ocean City, MD and a sunset photo taken in Marina, CA.
02 Saturday Dec 2017
Posted EBF Refuge, Photography
inThis Great Blue Heron was catching fish literally left and right. In the five minutes I spent photographing it, it managed to snatch five fishes out of the water. They were small but enough of them would be equal to a big catch. When I left, it was still looking for fish.
01 Friday Dec 2017
Posted EBF Refuge, Photography
inI am not sure about this bird’s name, which may be Cape May Warbler. If you know that it should have a different name, please let me know. Update: Jerry from https://quietsolopursuits.wordpress.com/ has been kind to identify it as a female Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Anyway, last Saturday morning I found her eating juniper berries. She did not fly away when I came near enough to photograph her.
She even turned around to look directly at me.