One of the highlights of our time at cold, cold Mercer Meadows this week was a Northern Flicker. He was sitting on a branch deep in the forest. I told my friend Alison to focus on the flicker while I played a little flicker sound on my iPhone. And look what happened:
I spent a wonderful evening and morning trying my best to photograph the short eared owls at Mercer Meadows in New Jersey. It was colder than cold. I went with my friend Alison and we both were layered from head to toe but still frozen after five hours in the cold. We saw two short eared owls about a mile away, but lots of other critters posed for our cameras. Here's a sampling:
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| Short Eared Owl from a Mile Away |
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| The Gray Ghost (Male Harrier Hawk) |
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| Bluebird in the Morning |
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| Downey Woodpecker in the Morning |
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| Male Harrier in the Morning |
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| Hermit Thrush on Sumac |
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| Flicker flying this way |
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| Young Red Tail Flying That Way |
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| Harrier checking out the Bird Box |
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| Harrier Flying Low |
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| Little Deer at Dusk |
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| Alison with two other photographers |
If you look closely and use your imagination, you can see a dancing Milkweed Borer with a tuxedo on. He's got his arms outstreatched and his legs are dancing. Valley Forge. Click on him for a better, closer view.I've just finished a brand new book of wonderful macro photographs called BUGS from A-Z. It's a lot of fun. If you want to take a look just click the link: https://www.blurb.com/b/12205712-b-u-g-s
And that means you can see a bit more of the wildlife because they have no place to hide. Here's a little fox and a harrier and another hawk that posed for my camera this morning.
Yesterday as I was walking through Charlestown Meadows I saw a little chipmunk with a few nuts in his mouth scurry across the path, run across the leaves and down into a hole. I waited and waited and the chipmunk emerged from the hole and ran back across the leaves, jumped up on a stump, jumped off the stump and then found a few more nuts and repeated the whole process. I sat down with him for at least an hour and got a few fun shots:
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