This needs a something. Like editing out the harsh colors? I think the block is called 'rocky mountain puzzle'. I decided I could show off the horrid color combinations better if I cleaned off the porch table, and photographed it in day light (and without a dog trying to walk across it), but I got distracted by cleaning the porch table (which needed a coat of oil).
Sun, 06/08/2014
This young robin was being well attended by parents, and seemed to make it off of our porch under its own power.
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Mon, 05/26/2014
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I went to Plum Island today, and it was excellent. I had some good looks at new-to-me birds (that I think are usual suspects for the venue) - black-bellied plover, and gadwall. I photographed lots of different things, and will post some more as I process them. For now, here's the American copper (Lycaena phlaeas), which was tiny, but remarkably cooperative.
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Fri, 05/23/2014
The surprise here is that nothing else in the garden had captured dew, just the grape.
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Sun, 05/11/2014
When making Jello concoctions:
- patience is important
- if something goes wrong while pouring, try stopping, rather than continueing and hoping for the best
- black cherry is an aesthetically unpleasing color
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Sun, 05/04/2014
I managed to get up early on Saturday and go out to Mt. Auburn. Abundant early warblers; had palm, n. parula, b&w, black-throated green, yellow-rumped, all in good abundance. I walked around with another birder who found me good looks at a blue-headed vireo, which I wouldn't've gotten a lock on by myself. Bonus of excellent (close) looks at a calling red-bellied woodpecker, and some amusement at a red-tailed hawk crashing around in a shrubbery.
Sunday, I hadn't found an opportunity (and was grumpy about it) by 5pm, but then escaped to join Mark at Great Meadows just after 5. It was windy and not very birdy, but we got nice looks at a couple of blue-gray gnatcatchers, and I flipped logs until I came up with a red back salamander.
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Fri, 05/02/2014
I'm still a little short of zoom, but here's a heron. He was resting with his beak tucked into his chest feathers, until a helicopter did a low pass over the Charles and woke him up. I also spotted my first warbler of the year, a black-throated blue, at the same spot, just West of the BU boathouse.
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Thu, 05/01/2014
On Tuesday, I spotted a heron roosting in a tree, on my way to work. A closer look revealed several more, for a total of four of them, and that they're black-crowned night herons. I can find two in this picture, I think it took another angle to spot the others.
I meant to bring a camera with a bit more lens, today, and forgot, but the herons were still there (I counted five). This is between the BU boathouse and the rotary, on Memorial Drive.
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