The Titanic Belfast museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland (May 2019) where Belfast’s shipbuilding history is displayed as well as everything one would want to know or see regarding the only voyage of the ocean liner Titanic.
Titanic Belfast
Scouting trip to the Beaver bog
We went over to the Beaver bog this morning after being away for a week or so. The crisp morning revealed an amazing Fall-like vision. The ”bog” is now a pond, of course, due to the rebuilding of the dam at the outlet stream by the latest tribe of beavers.
Osprey over the Kennebec
During an early afternoon walk in Mill Park, Augusta, Maine. This osprey was perched above the Kennebec river when it spied another osprey going after a fish.
Makin’ honey
Summer shadow
Hummingbird landing
Hummingbird at the feeder
We have had a long hummingbird season this year. When advised that they were appearing in Maine toward the end of April, I managed to deploy a feeder. I anticipated few visitors since we barely had green foliage around the yard and no natural flowers to speak of. We got swamped with activity. It has been that way all year. I have two feeders and have to fill them every three or four days now.
Egret near Enders Island
To continue our egret theme of last weekend, here is the fourth egret seen during my walks. Really, these were all different animals!
Great marsh osprey nest
This is the nest near the Great Marsh boat dock which has some chicks. The mom, I think, is shown here. This was taken a couple minutes after the osprey pictured in the previous post delivered a freshly caught fish.
Fisherman over the marsh
Last weekend as we departed the Great Marsh, we heard a cry from above. Then we saw this osprey flying back and forth over the marsh with a definite interest in my presence. It turned out that he was bothered how close I was to a nest in a tree near me. Once I walked away from this tree, he (I am sure this was the male counterpart of the family as the mom was already sitting in the nest protecting chicks) flew over to the nest.
john's f-stop 