Bird Photos and their Stories
In my last post, I shared pictures of Those Beautiful Blue-headed Vireos which we have breeding on our hill. Here’s a vireo that we don’t get to see too often in Central PA, although I’ve heard them twice in migration this year. While visiting Cape May for a few days last week, I was excited to […]
It was a blue kind of day–Blue-headed Vireo day, that is! These little guys were everywhere it seemed, and not too shy either. I would welcome comments on the immature bird below, as Sibley has no picture of a streaked young bird. I’m assuming it’s newly fledged. It’s feathers look rather wet or oily.
The same misty morning as my last post, Bald Eagles on a Foggy Morning, I encountered a beautiful osprey on the lake. I zigzagged over to him to get a closer look, then when he was ready to take off, he came towards me rather than away like the Bald Eagles do. I loved the […]
Nowhere else was it foggy, but when I got to Montour Preserve, I found the lake completely fogged in. After taking the trouble to load the kayak that morning, I decided to go for it. The fog was bound to clear, wasn’t it? And also there were two bald eagles waiting for me across the […]
Had to laugh today while watching this pair of Wood Ducks at Wildwood Lake Park in Harrisburg. They seemed to be having a disagreement over something, but they got it worked out in the end.
Every September Lycoming County holds a Balloonfest and Air show. Anyone who lives in Muncy Hills is lucky enough to observe the show from any number of vantage points on our back roads. The balloons got a slow start this morning, rising and falling back to the ground, some eventually making it over the ridge […]
After a cold front the other morning, a great variety of migrants came through on top of our hill. Birds like Yellow-throated Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, various warblers and Olive-sided Flycatcher which are rarely seen in this neck of the woods all came through to have their portraits taken. As if seeing an Olive-sided Flycatcher wasn’t […]
Yesterday was a gorgeous morning for a kayak ride at Lake Chillisquaque. After not seeing the Bald Eagles for a couple of weeks, I was excited to see one of the adults perched on its favorite dead tree near the Goose Cove bird blind. I had the lake to myself, and didn’t want to scare […]
August means shorebird migration, and two weeks ago I found a few shorebirds at Montour Preserve. Birds with long yellow legs are called Yellowlegs, but it takes some practice to differentiate between the Lesser and the Greater. If they are side by side, as in the above picture, it’s no problem. The Greater looks to […]
The state of Pennsylvania has been hosting increasingly more hummingbirds from the West during fall and winter. While our Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are making their way South for the winter, others like this adult male Rufous are coming East and looking for feeders and flowers. Our local Audubon chapter holds a contest to encourage people to […]