nature tales and camera trails

Today I am participating in a new meme which I found from a comment on my blog from Mary of North Carolina and her lovely blog, a breath of ...

  We had been driving along the branch road and as we turned a corner I shouted " Grouse!" to my husband as I had seenonr sitt...

   Each year in April we anticipate our annual trip to Keswick where we take our tax information to our accountant who has her office in t...

                                Shown  above are the first Dandelions in bloom that I have seen this spring!I found them nestled at the b...

   I found this pair of |Osprey yesterday afternoon on top of this nest at the corner of the Post Road and the Mast Road at Three Tree...

                                       Late this afternoon I saw this female Brown-headed Cowbird feeding in Bird Alley.  As is character...

                                        This morning I found a male Common Merganser!

Yes, it is spring despite the cold temperatures we have been experiencing and the snow covered ground seen on some recent mornings past. Ye...

I continue to monitor and look for new duck arrivals daily.,                                                   Do you see its beautiful ...

The daily rollcall of returning birds to Bird Alley continues to brighten my days.  Yesterday a new species arrival: Slate-coloured Juncos, ...

  Yesterday on April 5th, 2013 we had large numbers of Common grackles in our yard.  They were very skittish and flighty but by the end of...

 I was pleased to see another sign of spring earlier this week:  a Chipmunk in Bird Alley. Also on the same day , a small group of Grack...

On March 19th, 2013 I found my first duck of the season, a handsome male Hooded Merganser, and that is not all I found.   While tak...