nature tales and camera trails

Yesterday morning I was quite baffled with a unclear shape of a bird sitting in a tree in Bird Alley.  I took a couple of pictures of it....

How beautiful it is!  The moon seen this morning from my kitchen window, through the twigs of our birch trees along our diveway. My than...

    The joyful part of my day, watching birds at my bird feeders,  has   yielded the sighting of a male hairy woodpecker.  I know it is a ...

I was happy to see a little American Tree Sparrow in Bird Alley this morning.  The bi-colourd billwas its  identifying characteristic tha...

     Looking very closely at these berries shown above it appears that they have been mulitated and have  not been eaten as they have n...

Autumn is a time of year for seed dispersal and renewal : As the process of regeneration begins anew seed pods filled with determination...

On November 16th.while pursuing a Ruffed Grouse we found this standing  beaver-notched' ' gnawed'  tree and the beauty of  its...

These adult females Pine Grosbeaks lend their colouring easily to  this,my first posting on this meme,  new to me Mandarian Orange Monday...

sterday, Tuesday, while driving along the Branch Road, my husband was driving, I saw a ruffed Grouse feeding on the roadside shoulder, a...

          Yesterday we were quite intrigued when we saw a large group of pigeons on wires crossing the river. There were about ...

                             I was about mid- October when I  had commented to my husband that I hadn't seen any Common Mergansers i...

      Only for one day last week did we enjoy the beautiful bold yellow of the handsome male evening grosbeak and the demure yellow of...