Category Archive: animals

28 Aug

Ducks in a row

Ducks in a row

Keeping with the duck / water theme, here are a collection of ducks on a log in Turner’s Falls, MA, escaping from the rising flood …

 
By Michael
Also posted in birds, photos, water, Western Mass
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27 Aug

A duck … Precisely!

A duck … Precisely!

A duck, at the Bondville Fair in Bondville, VT. Hopefully they survived the flooding!

 
By Michael
Also posted in birds, photos, Vermont
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09 Jan

Pet Heron

Pet Heron

The juvenile Great Blue Heron we’v dubbed “pico de gallo” for no apparent reason. Fishing on a cold day.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, birds, photos, water
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02 Jan

Quite the pair

Quite the pair

Out enjoying the weather. A very cooperative pair of ducks.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, photos, water, Western Mass
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02 Jan

Lunch

Lunch

A beaver on the rail trail, taking advantage of the warm weather. Three beavers were in the same spot the day before, ringing in the …

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, Black and White, photos, Western Mass
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02 Jan

Coming in for a landing

Coming in for a landing

A red-tailed hawk on the rail trail here in Amherst. Finally, done with my PhD qualifiers (passed!) and on with life again, for a little …

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, birds, Western Mass
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25 Sep

Warming by the Dunes

Warming by the Dunes

A mixture of American Golden Plovers (juveniles), Piping Plovers, and possibly a Ruddy Turnstone or two warming themselves on an exceptionally warm late September day. …

 
By Michael
Also posted in birds, favorites, Maine, ocean, photos, water
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25 Sep

Greater / American Golden Plover

Greater / American Golden Plover

Juvenile. Taken at Wells Beach in Maine. There were hundreds of them eating and for the most part avoiding the surf.

 
By Michael
Also posted in birds, Maine, ocean, photos, water
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17 Jul

Riley

Riley

Connie & Bob’s aging Black Lab was excited and tired. Congrats again Brian & Emily!

 
By Michael
Also posted in Black and White, New Hampshire, photos
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04 Jun

Fireflies & Light Pollution

Fireflies & Light Pollution

Taken in Amherst, MA on a warm early June evening. I need to find a place without light pollution and with plenty of fireflies.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, nighttime photos, photos
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