Took a quick trip to the coast in December to check out some areas we hadn’t been to yet (Sea Rim State Park and parts of McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge). Camped out and birded/played the next day. Saw a lot of good birds but I was happy mainly because I got my plover fix. Piping, […]
Milano plomizo (Plumbeous Kite)
La paciencia en muchos casos rinde sus frutos y este día no fue la excepción, había caminado hasta la cima de un cerro siguiendo el camino desde La Bonita observando la actividad de los Milanos en vuelo, a medida que me acercaba al final del camino pude apreciar como un grupo de estas aves se […]
Le Conte’s Sparrow at Marl Bed Flats, 1/28/2013
Well, third time’s a charm. I’ve seen a Le Conte’s Sparrow twice here before this morning (both times with a group), but no photos. This morning I walked out by myself, hoping to find one and finally photograph it. Score! Le Conte’s Sparrows have now skyrocketed in my estimation to the prettiest sparrow I’ve photographed, […]
Great Spotted Woodpecker male
Dendrocopos major – Piciformes – Picidae -Remarkable facts: This bird is zygdactylous: it has 2 toes turned toward the front and the 2 others toward the back, just as all parrots.Its tong is long, viscous and has many corpuscles and the end is flat and sharp with many small hooks; the bird can project it […]
Tersina (Swallow-tanager)
Muchas Tersinas pude observar en la Posada la Bonita en El Soberbio, algunas mas confiadas que otras me permitieron obtener buenas fotografías, inclusive pude experimentar distintos seteos de balance de blanco en la cámara para tratar de que el color azul del pájaro salga tal cual es en la realidad, finalmente dejé todo en automático […]
Zorzal chalchalero (Creamy-bellied Thrush)
Frente a una de las ventanas de la cabaña en donde me hospedé en La Bonita tenía una vista privilegiada y una infinidad de posaderos dispuestos a recibir a quién quiera posar para mi cámara, el calor que hacía era sofocante y no hubo mucha actividad de aves durante los días que estuve en dicho […]
Lake Apopka, 1/26/2013
Beyond finding the Brown-crested Flycatcher and other flycatchers I was looking for, I had fun finding other birds as well. Several birds posed for photographs, most notably Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Phoebe, and Ospreys. Also a Red Admiral landed on a tree trunk for me. In my haste to find the flycatchers, I didn’t stop much […]
Katydid!
I found this katydid in Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 1, 2012. It’s the only one I’ve seen there — they can be hard to spot. It was sitting in a locust tree where it blended in extremely well with its leaf colored body and leaf-shaped wings. Click to enlarge. I suspect it knew something […]