After stopping by the ice pond the previous day, a solo great egret decided to return again when I was walking by.
birds
Ducks on no-name pond
canadian tourists
Endings and hanging ons
A scene of flora and fauna at different stages of their life cycles. Everything has a life cycle from birth to death.
Miss merganser
A female red-breasted merganser duck along the Connecticut shoreline in early 2015.
The mergansers of Poggy Bay
It has been a year since I spotted this small flotilla of merganser ducks cruising slowly along the Connecticut coast. I like their haircuts.
Winter woodpecker work
A downy woodpecker visits a tree in the nearby bog.
Seagull rock
Black capped
The small, active, and ubiquitous black-capped chickadee is the Maine state bird.
Woodpecker at work
After years of seeing pileated woodpeckers without a camera ready, this past month I have accidentally found them in my yard or at my mother-in-law’s yard. Here is a handsome guy near the coast of Maine.