Tubenose

A Northern Fulmar for something other than a backyard bird.

Northern Fulmar

 

A couple more from Tuesday

There were no shortage of showy Red-winged Blackbirds on Tuesday. Here's one more I missed. As Bombay Hook is not too far from the USAF Dover AFB there were several C17 Globemaster III coming and going. Interesting. If you search for the aircraft serial number 7169 it takes you to a website that tells you where it's been recently. It seems it's been over to Belgium, then to Germany and returned via Newquay airport where it probably picked up stuff from the recent G7 conference in St Ives. C17 Globemaster

As we were there on June 15th it was probably a training flight when we saw it.

C17 Globemaster III

Red-winged Blackbird

Bombay Hook and the Man Eating Flies

Tuesday we took a 2 and a bit hour drive down to Delaware to visit Bombay Hook on the Delaware Bay. I had read that mosquito's were a problem and that long sleeves were advisable. I wasn't expecting the man eating flies that we encountered on the wooded trails. After the first couple of trails we didn't do anymore and stuck to the  raised gravel roads around the pools. In all we saw 75 species, lots of Avocets and several Black-necked Stilts. The huge number of waders had left so next year we'll go a month earlier. The Marsh Wrens didn't want to pose for me and were playing hard to get. The Stilts and Avocets were too far away for my 500mm to get decent shots. I did get a new bird on the trip, a Seaside Sparrow but didn't get a decent picture of one.

Black-necked Stilt

Common Yellowthroat

Eastern Kingbird

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Great Egret

Great Egret

Marsh Wren

Marsh Wren

Osprey

Red-winged Blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird

Snowy Egret

White-tailed Deer

 Weather's been a bit iffy most of the week so couldn't be bothered to take bird pictures so here's an alternative for a change.

White-tailed Deer

White-tailed Deer

The Usual Suspects

It's currently 89F and the forecast is 93F and 96F tomorrow. Way too hot to go sit in the blind at the waterfall. I'll take the armchair by the window with the A/C on full blast thank you very much. Here's some of the usual suspects at the bird table this morning.

Blue Jay

Blue Jay close up

Blue Jay

Carolina Wren

Rd-bellied Woodpecker

Gray Catbird

Gray Catbird

Hot, Humid and Overcast to Hot, Sunny and Thundery.

 Today's weather has been what you could call variable. It started off wet after yesterdays rain, humid and hot with a very heavy overcast sky. I started off using flash as it was so dark. Then the sun came out and went in again and again and again. Right now in mid afternoon it's not as humid but the thunder clouds are rolling in and it looks like we're in for a storm.

Carolina Wren

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird

Pissed Off Gray Catbird

Gray Catbird

Gray Catbird

House Finch

Been a few days

As it's been a whole 4 days since I last stuck anything on here I though better get off my backside and take some pictures.  Only three today before it started pissing it down. There's a severe thunderstorm warning until 9pm tonight so I thought I'd get in a few while the light was still reasonable. Here ya go.

American Robin

Eastern Bluebird

Gray Catbird