A pair of mallards tuck chin to chest to manage the cold water and windy day on the Ice Pond in January
No-neck mallards
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Winter merganser
Around the new year, a lone merganser slowly cruised along the Connecticut shore
Shadow on a leaf
A meeting of tracks
Seeding in mid-winter
Crossing trails
A Maine hay field records the passing of machines and animals, big and smaller.
The night heron cometh
March 2017: Southern Connecticut
Barn swallow time
While I am couped up inside for the winter, a search of the archives found this unusually crisp image of a barn swallow (typically my swallows come out fuzzy due to slow shutter speeds trying to catch up to these high speed birds)
Winter loon
A common loon looks less exciting in the winter and is found in coastal ocean shorelines and bays instead of inland lakes during summer time.
Winter sparrow 2
Another white-throated sparrow, this one showing their distinctive throat coloring. The dab of yellow at the “ten o’clock” position around the eye is also an identifying attribute.
john's f-stop 