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/.

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 troubles and tribulations. Inevitably he would try and reserve an entire seat row for himself only to be joined by a predictably rude seatmate at the next stop. At best, he could hope for a chatty type, at worst, he could end up with someone who smelled of week old rotting fish. If only he had studied harder in school, he could have landed a better job that would have allowed him his own car and rental garage to park it in. But college was a time for women and drink and frivolity, all of which he deeply regretted as the bus turned the corner and headed towards where he was waiting…

One of a handful of Great Blue Herons I came across on Saturday 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/.

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” to give this the look I wanted.

For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

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 sort of small snake that he’s caught.

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/.

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 on Saturday 3-5-2011 at Edwin B. Forsythe Wildlife Refuge. Today was the D7000′s big debut at a “real” wildlife shooting scenario with lots of variety. To say I screwed up my settings for most of my still shots would be a huge understatement. Live and learn for the next time. I do think I was able to capture about a total of half an hour of kick ass 1080p HD video of several different species. I’ll be going through that footage on Sunday and editing it down to a reasonable series of short videos.

For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/. The new visitor center is complete and they did a heck of a nice job on it.

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 Of Ornithology.

For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

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 their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

Ospreys mating. From my trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ back on 4-3-2010.

For more information on Osprey, 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/.

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bern Williams

Sunrise over the marsh next to the Gull Pond. Shot from the observation tower at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ back on 7-3-2009.

For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site atwww.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

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Mother Osprey caries a fish back to her nest. From my trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ 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 their web site at www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

Several background texture layers purchased from Distressed Textures were blended in to set the mood.