Food, a Perch and they will come!

As it's colder than a Reindeer Fart outside I was photographing the birds from the comfort of an armchair and a nice cup of tea. It's much more civilized than walking round freezing your nuts off. It started out quite well then all the birds spooked and I saw the reason why. Cooper's Hawk looking for a meal. I ventured outside and shoo'ed him off and within a minute or two they came back.

Blue Jay

Coopers Hawk

Dark-eyed Junco

Northern Cardinal

Snow and Cold

Not only is it damn cold out there we now have several inches of Snow, yeah the white stuff. Whereas I had every intention of staying in by the nice warm fire today I now have to fire up little John Deere and shift the snow from the drive. It's certainly not going to melt anytime soon looking at the frigid temperatures we're going to get over the next week or so. In the meantime here's a Cardinal and a Blue Jay to brighten things up.

Northern Cardinal

Blue Jay on Winterberry

Cold Nights

One nice thing about these frigid nights we're currently experiencing is the clear night skies that are partly the cause of the low temperatures. Clear night skies free of haze means excellent views of the moon and stars. I ventured out for 5 minutes and took this one of the moon.

Its the moon.

Christmas Eve

Sunday 24th December, that makes it Christmas Eve.

Started off with a nice Sunrise.

Christmas Eve Sunrise

We went off to Hershey Gardens and Butterflies!

Postman

I think this is a Sara Longing

I think this is a Sara Longwing

Raptor, the only bird I photographed today!

Don't think I'd walk round here in the dark.

Nice Red Brick Path

Bit of Greenery

Little Hunters Beach, Acadia National Park

This is Little Hunters Beach in Acadia National Park, Maine. To reach it you have to carefully climb down some rickety, wet, mossy wooden steps. I would love to be here on a misty morning it would be magical.

Little Hunters Beach

Dunlin in Flight

Last February we drove out to Barnegat Lighthouse in New Jersey to photograph the Harlequin Duck in particular. There were lots of other avian sights as well. As we're planning another trip out the next month I was looking thru the 1444 photographs I took that day. Here's one I liked of a flock of Dunlin in flight along the Jetty.

Dunlin 

Sturnus vulgaris

Yep, common Starling. Still a nice looking bird when it's not in a huge flock.

Startling