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.
birds
Wading egret
An egret wades along a beach near the Mystic River (CT)
Sunday cardinal
Sunday titmouse
A little bird told me
Miss hummingbird
After several weeks of refreshing our new hummingbird feeder with nectar and monitoring it as best as a busy person can, we caught a customer taking a drink.
Tree hugger
For all the hard work and preparation that sometimes is required to get pleasing images of wild life, there are days when you get out of your car in your driveway and you have a picture. This was one of those days: after running into the house and grabbing the camera, this pileated woodpecker kept at work on one of our trees.
Sparrow in the rough
A chipping sparrow wanders the grounds along the driveway.
Blackbird on the bog
On the Smithfield Plantation (land reserved as a nature conservancy in Litchfield, ME), there is swampy bog where this blackbird always appears during the summer season to get his picture taken.
Nuthatch meal time
After waiting twenty minutes for some action on the far bog, this white-breasted nuthatch showed up. After checking out this old, dead tree, he found some food as I prayed for him to get out of the shadows.
