Woodies at Pompy
Last Tuesday and Wednesday turned out to be really good days for Wood Ducks in the Pompy area of Norwich. I had found some there a few days earlier, so…
Pompy area Ducks
I spent some time Wednesday through Saturday last week photographing ducks. One of the days was bright and sunny, but the other times I had to contend with fog or…
Woodies and Hoodies
Woodies and Hoodies seem to be abundant along the Connecticut River in the Upper Valley these days. Especially Hooded Mergansers, but there are certainly Wood Ducks too. One of…
Wood Duck Chase
Yesterday in Lyme, NH a friend and I witnessed a short chase scene. An unattached male wood duck got too close to another male and his mate and was asked…
Wood and Ring-necked Ducks
Yesterday morning I did the "5 and dime loop" from my home -- up Route 10 to Lyme and Orford and back Route 5 to Norwich. Generally the spots I…
Third Week of October 2016
It has been a vivid and beautiful foliage season, one of the best ever. The leaves are coming down in the Upper Valley and the surrounding areas of NH and…
Wood Duck with Frog
A quick trip up the river this morning was somewhat productive. Got an adult bald eagle flying over Reeds Marsh in Orford, a wood duck with a frog in Lyme,…
Monday’s Birds
Yesterday morning, a few birds made an appearance in Lyme including wood ducks at a considerable distance. But the star was a great blue heron that flew right toward me…
Hoodies and Woodies in NH and VT
It was a nice morning for wood ducks (likely over two dozen), hooded merganser, green-winged teal, and a bunch of very loud Canada geese. I photographed on both sides…
Wood Ducks on Clay Brook
The morning was cold, dark, wet, and foggy around Post Pond. I vertured into the Chaffee Wildlife Sanctuary hoping to photograph wood ducks. Several males flew by and a female…
Merlin, Buffleheads, and Wood Ducks
A morning of bird photography before the warbler influx resulted in photos of a merlin and displaying turkey in Hanover and buffleheads, wood ducks, a very bright cardinal, phoebe, and…