A common loon looks less exciting in the winter and is found in coastal ocean shorelines and bays instead of inland lakes during summer time.
Winter loon
Author: john gregory
Winter sparrow 2
Another white-throated sparrow, this one showing their distinctive throat coloring. The dab of yellow at the “ten o’clock” position around the eye is also an identifying attribute.
Winter mallards
A pair of mallards cruised along the outskirts of Poggy Bay on the Connecticut coast last weekend. While the temperatures were moderate during our visit, this winter has seen steady below freezing temperatures that have allowed ice to form along the rocky coastline – since this is salt water, this means it has been really cold!
Winter sparrow
Along the Connecticut coast this winter, we found the usual collection of energetic sparrows. I know a group that is sustained by the regular feeding from my brother. This one has the attributes of the white-throated edition.
Crab on the deck
A remnant of a curious creature not more than an inch-and-a-half wide appeared on the dock this weekend. A small crab that was deceased (or perhaps frozen)? How did it get here? The decking is three to seven feet above the water’s surface, depending on the tide. It was thirty feet from the shoreline access to the dock.
Natural gateway
Frozen at the creek 3
Frozen at the creek 2
Frozen at the creek
The variable cold weather so far this year has stratified some of the surface ice on the local creeks and streams. This is the stream from the beaver bog and it is still flowing underneath the ice you see here. Most of the snow cover is very crusty and icy, also as a result of some dramatic temperature differences among our storms this season.
A look at the geese again
The overflight of canada geese from the last few days of 2018 in southern Connecticut deserves another look…..
john's f-stop 