The last few weeks have been pretty busy for me with lots of tours and finding lots of migratory birds. This year’s early rain through the month of March was extreme but all along we knew that it would be a spectacular spring and hence have been rewarded with carpets of amazing multicoloured blooms covering […]
Snapping Turtle!
I saw this big snapping turtle sunning himself on the shore of The Reservoir in Central Park on one of the first warm sunny days of the year last week. The snapping turtle is New York’s official state reptile. Big ones can grow to around 18 inches long and weigh about 35 pounds. Wild snappers […]
El detalle del cuello de la Torcaza (Eared Dove)
Revisando la guÃa para copiar el nombre en inglés de la torcaza para el tÃtulo de la entrada me saqué una duda que apareció cuando editaba la foto, veo unos reflejos dorados en el cuello de esta torcaza que fotografié en el cementerio y fue algo que me pareció raro. Luego de comprobar el detalle […]
Roseate Spoonbill Landing
Yesterday my father and I went out to Merritt Island. We saw nothing terribly unusual (we went in part to find a Neotropic Cormorant that was seen the day before, but we never located it), but there were several photographic moments. We went first to Black Point Wildlife Drive, and the lighting was pretty good. […]
Siempre con el pico sucio (Field Flicker)
SerÃa una ardua tarea intentar obtener una fotografÃa de un Carpintero campestre con el pico limpio ya que la mayor parte del tiempo se la pasan en el suelo rompiendo los tÃpicos Tacurúes de esta parte del paÃs para alimentarse de las hormigas que los habitan, mientras estaba sentado a la sombra en el cementerio […]
Tricolored Heron Preening
You gotta love the way wading birds can contort their bodies to preen. Every once in a while, the poses they strike just strike me as fun and amazing. This Tricolored Heron decided to put on a preening show on Saturday when I was at Merritt Island. Pretty fun. There’s now he’s all settled again. […]
The Coypu, or River rat
Myocastor coypus (Camargue) – Rodentia – Myocastoridae – It can reach a weight of 12 to 14 kg! It lives in burrows alongside stretches of water. They waste close to 90% of the river plants they feed on eating only the stems, a destructive feeding and burrowing behavior but… that is not the full extent […]
Little guys
Welcome! hello there! I’d write more but my hands are frozen and typing is no fun (excuses, excuses, eh? Mmhmm)! Yeah…Texas, what? 35 degrees this morning? I do not approve. I’m craving my happy-thriving temperature of 84 and above. This 30’s thing this is pretty unacceptable. I’m not made for this nonsense, guys! But hey, […]