The following video is about 54 minutes long, but it is definitely worth your time.
Hot or Not: Steven Koonin
25 Friday Aug 2023
Posted Climate Change
in25 Friday Aug 2023
Posted Climate Change
inThe following video is about 54 minutes long, but it is definitely worth your time.
19 Saturday Aug 2023
Posted EBF Refuge, Photography
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Black-crowned Night Heron, common white tail, dragonfly, Forster's Tern, monarch butterfly, postaday, rookery
After almost two months, I went back to take some pictures at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. The sand flies are still there but in smaller numbers, and I could chase them out of the car as soon as they flew in. Here are some colorful scenes that I photographed.
18 Friday Aug 2023
Posted Photography
inRuby-throated Hummingbirds are very small birds that can be very competitive when it comes to food sources. The male birds do not allow any other bird, even females, to be at the nectar feeder. The King dines alone!
However, I haven’t seen him for several weeks now. Only female birds come to enjoy the sweet nectar I put out for them. Sometime, two females do share the feeder, but most of the time only one female is there.
Lately I have seen more of these hummingbirds at the feeder, including young ones who just fledged this summer. An older bird rarely allows a younger one to perch at the feeder. Usually, the young birds are unceremoniously chased away.
Once in a while, the food fight is more prolonged.
12 Saturday Aug 2023
This past Wednesday I drove through Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Smyrna, DE after not seeing it for the past six years. Unexpectedly I saw for the first time a very colorful Blue Grosbeak. It was part of a small flock and only the male shown below stopped long enough on the ground to pose for photos.
The refuge had many hibiscus flowers around its various pools.
Blue Chicory flowers lined up the bank of a pool and stood out against the sunlight.
American Avocets shared the waters with Snowy Egrets.
05 Saturday Aug 2023
Posted Photography
in“The Wave” is a spectacular sandstone rock formation near the Utah-Arizona border in an area named Coyote Buttes North. More than ten years ago I won by lottery a permit to visit The Wave on June 11, 2013, took many photos, and posted some of them on this blog.
Ten years later, I am using the latest version of DxO Photolab 6.8.0 to reprocess the RAW images captured with my cameras. Following are newer versions of the 2013 photos reprocessed with the latest edition of the software. Some but not all of the images have been displayed on this blog in previous years.
02 Wednesday Aug 2023
Posted Photography
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