Category Archive: birds

30 Oct

Mid-flight

Mid-flight

A red-bellied woodpecker mid-flight, taken out behind the apartment in the local golf course.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, photos, Western Mass
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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 animals, 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 animals, photos, Vermont
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04 Aug

Farrow / Spinch

Farrow / Spinch

A sparrow or finch of some sort (anyone know?) hiding deep in the cattails near Fish House Cove, Vinalhaven, ME.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Maine, photos
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02 Aug

400mm success

400mm success

Thanks to a borrowed 80-400mm lens, I was able to pull off this shot of yet another unidentified bird. Some sort of warbler? Taken at …

 
By Michael
Also posted in favorites, Maine, photos
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15 Jan

Pecking on Cat Tails

Pecking on Cat Tails

A hairy (?) woodpecker pecking on cat tails in the Poor Farm Swamp, Amherst.

 
By Michael
Also posted in Amherst, photos, plants, snow, Western Mass
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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, animals, photos, water
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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, animals, 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 animals, 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 animals, Maine, ocean, photos, water
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