Tag Archives: Forsythe-NWR

Departure

A Great Blue Heron takes his leave of me back on Saturday 3-5-2011 at Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge. For more information on Great Blue Herons, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology. For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.  

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Kingston hated waiting for the bus

The worst part of being reliant on the public transportation systems, thought Kingston, was the inability to do anything about when they are late. All the watch glancing in the world wasn’t going to make the confounded bus arrive any sooner. But he also knew the actual bus’s arrival would bring with it its own...

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Working the fields

This is a different Northern Harrier than the previous one I posted. We caught this one working the marsh grasses on the back end of the wildlife drive, looking for prey. A second one soon joined in the hunt in roughly the same area. I applied a texture layer from DarkWoods67 called “Autumn into Summer”...

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A small morsel is still a meal in hard times

One of a handful of Great Blue Herons I came across on Saturday at Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge. With fish in short supply this time of the year, these Herons work just as hard as they ever do but seem to come up with the smallest of catches. This looks to be maybe some...

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Northern Harrier in flight

I’ve never been able to capture a Northern Harrier before much less one in flight so I was sort of glad about that. I just wish I had a larger and better quality lens for this type of shooting. I had to crop the crap out of this and there just isn’t enough detail. Shot...

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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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Watch your back Eugene, I’m coming in for a landing

A juvenile Osprey comes in for a landing at the nest, talons extended, while his sibling looks out over the salt water marshes at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge back on 7–18-2009. For more information on Osprey, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology. For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit...

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