A cormorant gathers some finishing material for the nest.
birds
Nest building
A cormorant heads to their oceanside nest after pulling an old branch with leaves from a nearby fresh water pond
Song sparrow awaits
A healthy song sparrow is caught in a tree near my mother-in-law’s bird feeder.
Winter woodpecker
A rare walk in the backwoods this winter allowed us to see the woodpeckers at work. Here a female downy woodpecker was found twenty-five feet in the forest ceiling.
Waiting his turn
Winter meal
A hairy woodpecker is caught working hard about thirty or more feet high on a Maine birch tree.
Duck by the sea
A red-breasted merganser starts to get nervous as I linger by the shore in southeastern Connecticut last week.
Woodpecker on a leash
This hairy woodpecker looks as if he is on a leash but this is just an optical illusion.
Dont touch that boat
From the archive: a seagull watches over a dinghy during a foggy morning in March 1983 along the Connecticut coast. Originally, this image is from a slide transparency and only recently converted to digital (pardon the scratches).
Bog stump home
john's f-stop 
