Ever get the feeling that someone is looking at you? We came upon this barred owl on our local trail. We spotted him ahead of us flying from the ground up to this tree branch. He then sat there until we got too close and he flew off.
birds
Pre-summer sapsucker
A male sapsucker stopped by the other day
Where eagles stare
During a recent visit to Ketchikan, Alaska, we heard that eagles are commonplace along Alaska’s southeastern shore. We found them perched on houses, on tree tops along the water’s edge, and cellphone towers.
The fish was THIS big!
A pair of loons discuss the morning’s search for breakfast on a New Hampshire lake.
Nap time near the lake
Along a stream near Lake Contoocook in southern New Hampshire, a mallard is taking a mid-day nap
Beachcomber
A spotted sandpiper pauses to check me out while walking along the lake shore
Weekend cruise on the lake
A family of Canada geese paddles slowly along the shore of a New Hampshire lake last weekend
Saxman wingman
At the Saxman Totem Park, near Ketchikan, Alaska, a raven brings an alternative concept to the term “wingman”
Springtime at the plantation bog
At the bog to the east of the Smithfield Plantation conservation land, the bog marsh is slowly getting to springtime. The great drought of 2016 is over; let us make the bog great again ….
Eastern phoebe
While wandering along the far bog and waiting for activity near the beaver’s den, we spotted this likely phoebe.
john's f-stop 