About a week ago, a very scruffy-looking Goldfinch caught my eye when it was sitting on my bird feeder. I didn't realize exactly how scruffy it was, though, until I zoomed in on it with my camera. I have no idea whether it's molting (as the rest of its plumage suggests), survived a run-in with a cat or some other predator, or is the result of some ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd share a few pics I took at my parents' place yesterday morning of a Cardinal that's obviously still waiting for all of his winter plumage to fill in:


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I've seen woodpeckers perch at some odd angles before, but for my birthday this Hairy Woodpecker pulled off one I'd yet to witness: completely upside down underneath Mom and Dad's mesh feeder:


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A couple of weeks ago, toward the end of a Saturday stint at work, I heard the sound of a crow cawing right out in front of the building. I took a peek out one of the windows, saw there were three crows less than ten feet away on the lawn, then grabbed my camera. It didn't take me too long to realize that one of the crows was a fledgling, still ( Read more... )

I stayed over at Mom and Dad's for about a week and a half in June, and while I was there I managed to expand my already embarrassingly large assortment of unsorted photos to gigantic proportions. I'm going to try my best to do something about that, starting with a few shots I took of some of the Cedar Waxwings that spent a good deal of quality ( Read more... )

Just wanted to share a couple of photos today; I actually took them the same day as the Robin photos in my last post, but since I had so many images to share it made more sense to me to save these for a separate entry ( Read more... )

Even though Mother Nature keeps toying with us here in New England, both the calendar and the recent influx of Robins indicate that spring has finally arrived. While Robins are occasionally spotted during the winter months, it's when we start seeing handfuls of them dotting yards and fields that we know the warmer weather is indeed on its way ( Read more... )