Jul 10 2009
A Royal Tern slices through the air near Ocean City, MD Well, I seem to be taking one of my periodic (frequent?), unplanned absences from the blogosphere, so here, at least, is something new to look at for a while. I went down to Ocean City, Maryland, the other evening with Kevin Fleming to photograph [...]
Feb 11 2009
I haven’t participated in Wordless Wednesday before, but this photo, taken last fall in Cape Henlopen State Park, seems to fit. Click that link for other word-free goodness.
Nov 24 2008
Forrest Rowland and I got out early this morning with the intention of birding Burton’s Island, but we had made it only a few meters down the trail when my cell phone rang. It was Michael O’Brien, calling from Cape May to say that Mark Garland and a Cape May Bird Observatory group that Mark was [...]
Nov 17 2008
A strange thing happens within birding circles–a rare bird can go from a point of pride to a source of a certain kind of shame. Up until this year, having seen a Cave Swallow in Delaware was a distinction that would have produced at least low-level envy among many in this community. Now, it’s rapidly reaching [...]
Oct 27 2008
We had a terrifically successful sparrow trip yesterday, tallying 14 species of Emberizids (the family that includes New World sparrows, as well as things like towhees, longspurs, juncoes & some of the buntings). photo by Jim White We began at Indian River Inlet, where the marsh was very, very good to us. We enjoyed soul-satisfying [...]
Oct 11 2008
Halloween is Liz’s favorite holiday, so she really gets into decorating the yard for it. But not with prefabricated junk–she strives for something far more authentic. Friday, she started weaving a web. When complete, I won’t be able to walk through it, as I did when making that afternoon’s trip to the mailbox, where a [...]
Oct 09 2008
Yesterday afternoon, I was out in downtown Lewes along the canal and photographed some Laughing Gulls in the parking lot of the public boat launch. Below, I’ve assembled a short series of photos into a flash video. Watch it once or twice to see if you can spot anything strange. A tip: click the “play” [...]
Oct 07 2008
How can we possibly explain the scorn heaped upon grackles? They are so big and beautiful and spectacular–just look at that handsome buck above. He’s splendid, if just a little bit sandy. How can you not be impressed? Grackles do, it’s true, have some annoying behaviors–they’re abundant, gregarious, and noisy; moreover, they steal a percentage of our [...]
Oct 05 2008
If I were to say the words, “Fall Color,” what would you picture? Sugar maples in Vermont? An aspen grove in Colorado? Probably not, I would guess, a saltmarsh in Delaware. Well, here’s a shot I took on Friday (03 October): A pleasant little scene of autumn golds, but nothing that would draw busloads of [...]
Oct 05 2008
After Monday’s 1048 raptors counted at the Cape Henlopen hawk watch, the news spread over DE-BIRD (as the news of every day does) and through an article by Molly Murray in the News-Journal (featuring an Osprey photo by yours truly). Thursday, October 2nd, a sizable crowd assembled for what looked to be the next big flight [...]
