Silent Sunday

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bufflehead, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, postaday

Bufflehead turning.

Yellow-rumped Warbler

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, juniper berry, postaday, yellow-rumped warbler

Yesterday, driving along Wildlife Drive I saw several birds jumping in and out of a juniper tree on one side of the road. I stopped and took photos of Yellow-rumped Warblers, birds which are quite abundant in the fall as they eat the plentiful berries on the juniper. These birds normally eat insects but in the fall they love the juniper berries which are too bitter for human consumption.

Young Yellow-rumped Warbler eating juniper berries.

Yellow-rumped Warbler with a juniper berry.

Reaching up.

Make no mistake about it, it’s a yellow-rumped warbler.

Yellow-rumped Warbler.

I think they were female warblers. Some took time to look at the photographer.

“Make sure you tell them how pretty I am!”

Female Yellow-rumped Warbler.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, even if you are not in the US.

Monochrome Monday

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lesser yellow legs, postaday

Migrating Lesser Yellowlegs.

Suburban Fall Colors

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carolina wren, fall colors, postaday, red maple, sugar maple

Fall is still lingering on, and the colors are probably at their peak. Over the past several days, I have been photographing fall colors as shown in the following photos.

Sugar Maple.

Young Red Maple.

Another view of Red Maple.

This Magnolia tree lost its leaves several weeks ago, but it is displaying many flower buds for next spring.

This Carolina Wren has not migrated yet, and blends in well with the fall landscape.

Monochrome Monday

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, great egret, postaday

A flying Great Egret seems to be a good subject for Monochrome Monday.

Great Egret.

Great Egret.

Great Egret.

Great Egret.

Great Egret.

Silent Sunday

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, great egret, postaday

Great Egrets.

Great Egrets.

Great Egrets.

Taking Off

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, great egret, postaday

A Great Egret was taking off at the refuge.

Silent Sunday

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, great blue heron, mute swan, postaday, ring-billed gull

A corner of Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Mute Swan.

Great Blue Heron.

Ring-billed Gull.

Bald Eagle

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Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, postaday

This morning a Bald Eagle perched on an abandoned Osprey nest was surveying the marshes.

Bald Eagle on Osprey nest.

It looked directly at me as I got out of the car to take its picture.

Bald Eagle looking directly at photographer.

I took a few shots and turned away. At that instant it flew up in the air and I missed most of the flight shots, except for the following.

Bald Eagle preparing to dive.

It tried to catch something, but missed it.

It flew up.

Bald Eagle banking.

Bald Eagle flying away.