I took nearly 100 photos of brown pelicans at the tip of Cape Hatteras this afternoon, including this one of a pelican attempting to catch a fish. They look pretty goofy while fishing…and flying. I was particularly glad to snap some pictures of an Osprey, which I’d never sighted before. Most of the birds there …
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The accoutrement of illness.
I’ve long wondered, if one must get sick, if it’s better to be sick while at home, or while vacationing in a beautiful, comfortable place. Turns out it’s home. It’s just a cold, and a mild one, at that.
Outer Banks wildlife.
The more that I learn about the natural world around me — the names of the birds, the distribution of flowers — the more that I learn while traveling. Laughing gulls wheel overhead here, like so many cardinals at home. But so do brown headed cowbirds, which are a constant presence in our yard. The …
Lady Bird and Annie frolic.
Day one of a week-long vacation. Lady Bird saw the ocean for the first time just now, and she seems to like it. She and Ado Annie had some quality frolicking time.
Black-throated Blue Warbler.
Mere minutes after a male cardinal careened off the the window directly in front of me, this little guy hurled himself into one of the smaller windows in my living room. This being just three days after the Rose-breasted Grosbeak hit the window. I feel like such a bastard. The Blue Warbler — which I’d …
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.
I had never seen such birds as these until they showed up at our feeders yesterday afternoon. They’re both males, in their full mating-season regalia. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are found in Southwest Virginia during the summer; the rest of the state only sees them during their annual migration between Central / South America and the northeast, …
Four scenes from Virginia Tech.
Scene one. I’m standing on the Drillfield. Small groups of students are filtering by me, all headed directly for the coliseum, where the convocation is scheduled to start in couple of hours. Nearly everybody is wearing orange and maroon, the school colors, the t-shirts left over from a big game last fall. Almost everybody is …
Easter snow.
Two and a half inches of snow on the ground on April 7. I saw snow on April 4 last year but, then, I was in Massachusetts. Snow in this part of the nation this time of year certainly is unusual.
Female cardinal.
Our yard is fairly teeming with birds. Blue jays, brown-headed cowbirds, sparrows and titmicen are all crowding in for seed.
Part of the creative commons.
Wakefield throws a knuckleball. It was a year ago that my father, my wife and I saw the Red Sox play the Orioles at Camden Yards. A photo I took of Tim Wakefield (at left) is now his Wikipedia photo, and a photo I took of Jonathan Papelbon is now his Wikipedia photo. That’s because …