I spent a couple of happy hours stalking the willets feeding at low tide on St. Simons Island and never could figure out what it was they were eating…
: )
5 ways to look at a willet
Category Archives: Snapshots
A week in photos
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So… what have you been up to?
: )
Cutwater
also Scissorbill, Shearwater and previously known along the Virginia coast as Storm Gull.
I’d suggest the addition of Penguin Gull.
; )
Do you see the similarity?
My 1917 edition of the Birds of America is a joy for many reasons, but I particularly enjoy it for the local or historical names; so often these names are much more evocative of a bird’s spirit or some fundamental quality that we associate them with.
Peterson sort of dryly describes their call as *barking* or alternately as “kaup, kaup.” To me it sounds like something between a bark and a quack. Members of a colony at rest on the beach will call anxiously to one another as people approach on foot and it sounds for all the world to me like a childhood game of “Marco Polo.”
Listen for that next time!
The blues at Walnford
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| The cattle barn |
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| Sky with horse |
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| Mill reflected in Crosswicks Creek |
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| Cellar view |
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| Mill from the porch of the Waln house |
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| Original haint blue paint swipe on an upper mill wall |
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| Patch of sky with summer’s last greens
More info and pics from past visits to Walnford are here. |
Wordless Wednesday
Curious
Most every picture of Royal Terns has this sort of feathery dandruff on their bills…
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Ideas anyone?
No comment needed
Raiding my brother’s garden
I made a late morning visit to my brother’s house; I wasn’t really expecting to find him at home, but
the welcoming crew assembled to greet me as I stepped from the car…
and the garden sentry was especially suspicious of my motives,
but look at the bounty he’s charged with safeguarding!
I nearly tripped over this young member of the pest control crew…
(what funny curly feathers, btw!)
but this was my prize!
So Kev, those couple perfectly ripe tomatoes you thought the squirrels had stolen…
that was me!
; )
Bad bird photo of the week
It’s reassuring to me that, even with a fancy new lens, I can still take especially bad bird pics…
😉
Any guesses?
Cape May lineup
So far there’s just Susan, Delia and me.
(pout)
That’s a very small Flock.
BT3 is speaking on Saturday night.
There’s the Hawkwatch and the Seawatch at Avalon.
Heck… there’s Sandy Hook on the way from the airport.
The Fall Weekend at Cape May isn’t anything like the New River Festival or Potholes and Prairies, but this isn’t West Virginia or North Dakota. What NJ might lack in charm or hospitality, it makes up for in birds.
; )
And high prices, I know.
Don’t let the registration fees dissuade you. Come for a day or an afternoon, even.
We’re making it more affordable this year by staying together in some ramshackle hotel and only paying for a day’s worth of programs. We’ll spend the rest of the weekend wandering on our own, making up bird ID’s and laughing together.
Sounds fun, no?
It’s Cape May… THE birding destination. You know it’s on your list for “someday”… why not make it this year?
The Flock would love to have you join us.