Tag Archives: birds

Snow Geese fly-out against a textured sky

Several Snow Geese fly out of the farmer’s field next to Chapel Road at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Sunday 2-20-2011. For more information on Snow Geese, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology. I blended several textures from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Textures to give the sky a painterly...

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Flight, fish and feathers

A male Osprey comes in for a landing at the nest carrying the remains of a fish for his young. Taken back on 7-18-2009 at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. I can’t wait to go back and do shots like this with the new D7000. For more information on Osprey, visit the Cornelll Lab...

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Hoping they can rebuild…

I found out this past week that this Eagles nest I had been following for the past several years in the Delaware Water Gap area of N.E. Pennsylvania fell victim to the very high winds back on Saturday 2-19-2011. The top of the tree snapped off and the nest is gone. What makes this all...

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Baby, I’m coming home

A female Osprey arrives back at the nest where her mate has been taking a turn sitting on their eggs. Taken back on 4-18-2009 on the Manasquan Reservoir in Howell, New Jersey. I am told that both Osprey nests that I was following at the reservoir have been destroyed by storms this Fall/Winter. I hope...

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Snow Geese in formation at Middle Creek WMA

Three Snow Geese fly in formation overhead at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Klinefeltersville, PA on Sunday 2-20-2011. The Pennsylvania Game Commission web site said on 2-17-2011 that because of temperatures in the mid to upper 60s on two days this week, the ice has begun to thaw on both the lake and...

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Hanging on…

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware. A shot from my archives taken back n 7-6-2009. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/.

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3-way Egret territorial dispute @ Bombay Hook NWR

It all started when one Great Egret flew into a section of Raymond Pool close to another. The Egret that was there originally, obliged the intruder by flying to another position a hundred feet away. The intruder flew over to the Egret’s area again. Again, the original Egret moved to am alternative spot, and again...

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