Ducks in rain and sun Leb-Han-Lyme
The first Ring-necked Duck photograph I got this season happened this morning in the rain at the West Lebanon Wildlife Area. From time to time this area has revealed some…
Pompy area Ducks
I spent some time Wednesday through Saturday last week photographing ducks. One of the days was bright and sunny, but the other times I had to contend with fog or…
Mergansers, Hawks, and Turkey
Late morning yesterday while driving along Route 11/103 in Newport, NH, I spotted Hooded Mergansers in the Sugar River. I parked, carefully crossed the busy road, and slowly approached the…
Harris Brook early November 2016
You might be asking, what and where Harris Brook is. This is a relatively new area created by the Enfield Conservation Commission. Its centerpiece is the Enfield Reservoir, which was constructed…
Finch, Mergansers, and distant birds
Over the last week or so I got some photos of Hooded and Common Mergansers flying, molting American Goldfinch and a Purple Finch, and distant shots of a Bald Eagle…
Wood Duck with Frog
A quick trip up the river this morning was somewhat productive. Got an adult bald eagle flying over Reeds Marsh in Orford, a wood duck with a frog in Lyme,…
Monday’s Birds
Yesterday morning, a few birds made an appearance in Lyme including wood ducks at a considerable distance. But the star was a great blue heron that flew right toward me…
Sunday Birds and Water
The forecast was not great last Sunday so I planned to stay home and get needed work done. But reports of grebes in Wilder tempted me to have a look.…
Coast, March 6 & 7, 2014
I had resisted a journey to the coast to photograph the snowy owls partly because everyone else was getting such great photos but mostly due to time commitments. I finally…
Tigertown Pond
Tigertown Road in Norwich Vermont has a few small ponds that sometimes host interesting birds. A brief stop there recently revealed a solitary sandpiper and a pair of hooded merganser.…