‘A Bestiary’ continues . . . this month featuring the medium sized and strikingly marked Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia. I first sighted this little songbird kicking up detritus from within pots on the terrace garden. It was May 2009 and proved to be, so far, my only close-up encounter with this beautiful warbler. A rather […]
Central Winds Park, 9/4/2013
I had a pretty good time at Central Winds this morning. I’d seen an Acadian Flycatcher there yesterday, though there was enough yellow on it that I thought it might have been an early Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. My recording of its calls was pretty terrible, but I still think it’s an Acadian. I returned to where […]
QUOLLS – Fast & Furious
The Spotted-tailed quoll, the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial mammal currently living in mainland Australia. Endangered with few as 500 individuals possibly known to be only in existence, we investigate their secretive and short life span of three years in their remote and extremely isolated populations amongst the cloud forests of the North Queensland Wet Tropics. […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 14 Sep 2013
During the last week our members have again entered some outstanding top-ranking wildlife images for the “Best Photo of the Week” competition. Click on the first image and then page through the slideshow. Please select the three images you like best of all and VOTE for them at the bottom of this page. Voting will […]
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is only 25 miles from New York City in Vernon, New Jersey. It’s a great place for a day of strolling and wildlife spotting.There are duck blinds,roads and trails, wildflower fields, and boardwalks over marshes. Wood ducks and eastern bluebirds are some of the wildlife rock stars that breed in […]
Naranjero (Blue-and-yellow Tanager) Thraupis bonariensis
Hoy a la mañana puse una banana en una mesa del patio para activar un poco el comedero porque lo tenía bastante desatendido, con la lluvia de hoy hubo mucha actividad de pájaros y la fruta no alcanzó a llegar al mediodía. Aproveché también para ejercitar un poco el brazo derecho sacando algunas fotos y […]
Amsterdamse Waterleiding Duinen
Afgelopen week begonnen met een aantal dagen vrij. Deze dagen deels besteed aan het bezoeken van een paar dingen die ik al een tijdje op mijn lijstje had staan. Een van die dingen was een bezoek aan de Amsterdamse Waterleidings Duinen. Samen met een collega van het werk een dag op pad geweest naar dit […]
Tangará alcalde (Chestnut-bellied euphonia) Euphonia pectoralis
Unas semanas atrás mostré fotografías del Tangará alcalde obtenidas por Willy en el Jardín de los picaflores de Puerto Iguazú; hoy comparto estas dos imágenes de la hembra en las que pueden observar los detalles que sirven para una correcta identificación. Se puede ver la parte ventral de color gris con los flancos amarillos y […]