Catching up

Well Ranger season is in full swing, and so is the Warbler migration. I saw a life bird recently Lawrence Warbler ( Blue-wing / Golden-wing hybrid ) Also today I caught up with the American Oystercatchers at the end of Winthrop Beach they have 3 chicks !! Lots of random birds here, enjoy !

                                                             Lawrence Warbler

                                                        Blue-winged Warbler 

                                                              Baltimore Oriole- Belle Isle Rez

                                                                Eastern Kingbird

                                                                  Warbling Vireo- Belle Isle Rez

                                                                Yellow Warbler singing- Belle Isle Rez

                                                                    Scarlet Tanager

                                                            Yellow Warbler

                                                                  Oystercatchers

                                           Adult feeding the chicks...look closely, they really blend in

                                                    Most hated bird in Revere

                                                               Manx Shearwater

Catching up - various birds

After a recent computer crash the pictures have been building up. As such the photos span the past few weeks. I am not yet all that great at lightroom, so these are the first edits with the new program.

                                                    Sharp-shinned Hawk in the yard

                                             Snowy Owl , transmitter attached to bird

                                                                  Savannah Sparrow

                                                    Garter Snake emerging for spring

                                                    Dawn looking toward Nahant

                                                                          Savannah

                                                     Little vole, pretty comical little guy

                                                                     Piping Plover

                                                      Manx Shearwater - Revere

                                                                      Purple Finch

                                       far off Short-eared Owl hunting the Belle Isle marsh

                                                  Eastern Screech Owl - Red phase

                                                 Gray mate to the Red Screech above

Eastern Coyote & Red Fox

It seems I see Coyotes every day now, hunting openly during the day. This winter seems to have hit them particularly hard, completely augmenting their behaviors. I also ran into a Red Fox sleeping the snow, alert but tired. Not the best pictures, I didn't try to get close to either animal, any unnecessary energy expenditure on the animals part could be fatal right now.

Winter Birds

The Parker River Reserve  remains mainly inaccessible, but it does make for an impressive snowscape. 

The heavy snows have been tough on my birding, and I suppose also on the birds. I have seen the typical spread of Tree Sparrows and White-throated Sparrows around, but not much else in the way of passerines. Today after a lot of searching various fruit trees for two days I finally located a few small flocks of Waxwings, regrettably not Bohemian's.  

                                               
                                      
                                                                     Cedar Waxwing

                                            Red phase Eastern Screech Owl along the road, and the next day a Gray phase in the same hole.

                                                        The two photos combined.

Not everyone likes their neighbors 

                                         Adult Bald Eagle, Newburyport as the backdrop

Common Redpolls

A small flock of Redpolls near the Hellcat area has turned into over 200 birds in under a week. The Redpoll's are feeding on Birch Tree seeds. Fun to watch these winter birds swarm, a nice break from people chasing owls all over the dunes.

On that not I must add, I am excited for the Snowy Owls to leave, people simply can not handle being responsible around these birds, and with no agency to enforce peoples behavior with the wildlife they are simply running ramped up here on Plum.

Purple Snadpipers along rt 1A in NH, Casey and I went looking for a Gyrfalcon but found these little guys. 

 Sleeping,  no need to chase see ? 

Barred Owl & Others

I got some more pictures of the local Barred Owl, sometimes its just to easy not to take a picture of this bird. I also took a great walk on Crane Beach, I love this place, lots of memories since it was my beach growing up.

                                                              Dunes trail at Crane Beach

Horned Lark