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Snowtastrophe
Posted in Photos, tagged Photos, Snow on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday: Cedar Waxwing
Posted in Birds, Garden, Photos, Wordless Wednesday, tagged birds, Photos, Wordless Wednesday on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Birds, birds everywhere at Cantigny Gardens last weekend. This Cedar tree was filled with about 50 Waxwings. This is a fairly common bird but you’ll only see them if you look up. They like to travel in flocks and can be seen eating berries in fruit trees or catching insects in mid-air.
More Wordless Wednesday.
Brilliant Short Film About A ‘Broken’ Camera
Posted in Photos, Video, tagged photography, Video on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is an award winning short film about how a recent widower deals with his grief through his wife’s broken camera. Or is it really broken? As a photographer I can relate. And bring tissues.
While it’s only 4 minutes long it’s quite powerful.
Christmas Bird Count
Posted in Birds, Photos, Wildlife, tagged birds, Photos on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday I participated in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count at Cantigny Gardens, part of the counting circle for the Dupage Birding Club.
The longest running Citizen Science survey in the world, Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place between December 14, 2009 and January 5, 2010. From Alaska to Antarctica, tens of thousands of volunteers will add a new layer to over a century of bird population information.
Scientists rely on this remarkable trend data to better understand how birds and their environment are faring, and what needs to be done to protect them. Data from Audubon’s signature Citizen Science program are at the heart of numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies.
The weather was not the best. It was cloudy with temperatures in the low 30′s and light snow most of the day. We didn’t see as many birds as we expected with a final count of 519 birds and 25 species. Not one robin was seen and house sparrows were scarce. There were a lot of geese, and no crows.
After I was done counting I spent some time near one of the feeders and took some pictures of a few of the birds:
Northern Cardinal – Male
Northern Cardinal – Female
Chickadee Strikes a Pose
Posted in Birds, Photos, Wordless Wednesday, tagged birds, Photos, WordlessWednesday on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn Prairie
Posted in Nature, Photos, tagged Nature, Photos, prairie on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Saturday was a gorgeous, sunny day with temperatures in the low 70′s, a rare treat for November. It was much too beautiful a day to be indoors so I grabbed my camera and went for a walk in the Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve, an 80-acre remnant prairie, wetland, and savanna complex.
The prairie looks very different in the fall with none of the vibrant color and lushness of the summer flowers.
Even though it is surrounded by development I could barely hear the traffic. In these photos you can see the office buildings in the distance.
The prairie has an interesting history. This land was originally planned as a housing development in the 1920s, but then the Great Depression came along and plans were halted.
Three cutouts were made for streets and sidewalks were poured, but that was all that was developed. The sidewalks are still there. An eerie grid of them leads you through an oak savanah to the open prairie.
Although this prairie is home to over 150 species of birds, very few were visible. I could hear them and see a few hopping in the dried grass, but they weren’t interested in letting me get too close. Perhaps the Red-tailed Hawk soaring above had something to do with it.
A tree sparrow stopped just long enough for me to get off a shot and a tree full of starlings didn’t seem too worried.
Immature Cedar Waxwing
Posted in Photos, Wordless Wednesday, tagged birds, Photos on October 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Pink Dahlia
Posted in flowers, Garden, Photos, tagged dahlia, flowers, Garden, Photos on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The dahlia is still blooming. We haven’t had a frost yet. I expect that to change this weekend.
Pool Party
Posted in Birds, Photos, tagged birds on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My birdbath was a popular place last week. Perhaps because until Sunday night we hadn’t had rain in 22 days. To say the weather here has been unusual this year would be an understatement.
The young robins enjoy splashing around in the bath. They like to play in the water more than any of the other visitors.
The sparrows were trying to get a drink.
Even the squirrels are thirsty.
Flowers After the Rain
Posted in flowers, Photos, tagged flowers, Photos on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like the way the flowers look after the rain stops and the sun returns. Here are a few photos I took last week.
Surprise Lilly
Hosta Flowers
Pink Spider Flower
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