Three Finalists this Month!!!

Serville Cats Touching Noses in Ndutu, Tanzania

The Bluebird and the Fly - Valley Forge

The Handsome American Toad - Valley Forge

 

The Marvelous Marsh Fly and His Smiley Face

 I found this wonderful fly in Valley Forge called a Marsh Fly.  After posting him somebody told me that he had a smiley face on the back of his wings.  I went back and looked at other shots I had taken of him, and lo and behold he does have a smily face on the back of his wings.  Expand and look closely.

Oh, Spring and the Macro Lens

Wild Violet

Bombyliidae Bee Fly on a Daffodil

Liver Leaf Wildflower

 

The Downey Woodpecker today in Charlestown Meadows

 

Field Sparrow, Pileated Woodpecker and an Eastern Phoebe in the Woods - Yesterday in Valley Forge

 

Pileated Doing What Pileateds Do!! (Click for Full Effect)

 

The Warblers are Back in Valley Forge!!!

The Palm Warbler

The Pine Warbler

Spring is Here!!

Today was truly spring.  The birds were many.  And there was a groundhog who emerged and grabbed a nearby branch. Deer and best of all the first warbler of the season - a pine warbler.

The Tufted Titmouse

Northern Flicker

Kissing Black Capped Chicadees

Ground Hog with Branch

White Tailed Deer

Bluebird between the Buds

The Pine Warbler Hiding behind the Branch

 

Box Turtle in the Woods Today

I spent a good three hours scouring the woods in Valley Forge today looking for something interesting to photograph.  Finally on my way out of the woods there he was.  A little orange box turtle just sitting there with a fly on his back.  Oh the thrill of it all!