Our eastern forest flautist. I still have too much nine year old boy in me not to use flautist instead of flutist. Those of you that smiled when you read flautist know what I mean. Flautist, or flutist if you are more mature, is a perfect description of a singing Wood Thrush. As all songbirds […]
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Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis, more closely related to herons): A non-native species that arrived in Florida from South America after arriving there from Africa. Naturally, on their own industrious volition, with no human help. I have been fascinated with Cattle Egrets since shortly after their arrival in Florida. Yes, I’m that old and they’re that […]
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There are a lot of juveniles roaming our neighborhood yards. And, not just basketball & lacrosse pickup games. Birds too. Juvenile birds are individuals that have molted to their first real plumage, but not their adult plumage. Fledglings are juveniles. When they transition officially to juvenile status is, the best I can tell, a judgement call. […]
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This is not a review. It is my explanation of why I use Olympus OMD bodies and pro lenses. I came to nature photography primarily from fishing and backcountry travel and camping to find unpressured water. My instructor and mentor was my father. He caught a lot of fish. Our family ate a lot of […]
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I have watched my fair share of bird documentaries. Almost all include courtship and mate selection rituals. These are often bizarre or weird to our eyes. That is until we think back to our teens and the corollaries come racing back to mind. One of my unfair conclusions early on was that the females (it […]
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Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers get most of their nutrition from sap which they gather in sap wells that they industriously bore and maintain. Perfectly logical to call them sapsuckers in my opinion. And, since they have a yellow belly also logical to name them Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. All in all, a fitting name for a strikingly marked, industrious […]
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Tufted Titmice are yard favorites in our household and I suspect many others. They have expressive faces and polite behavior, though often noisy. They sit on a perch near our feeders until they can take a turn, then fly in, get a nice sunflower seed, and then fly back to a perch to shell the […]
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