Perhaps the most abundant warbler and certainly one of my faves, the masked Common Yellowthroat is easy to photograph. Or at least it is in my experience. The male will sit up on weedy sticks at roadside edges, in overgrown fields, hedgerows, salt or freshwater marshes and on woodland edges. While I do not have [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 9, 2009
Bird Photography Weekly
A long time ago, when I lived in the city in a walk-up apartment above a store and next to a bar; I had a small plot in a community garden. Working the earth was part of my childhood and I hoed, planted and weeded with abandon. It brought me peace and contentment to be [...]
June 7, 2009
Whatcha doin?
I sat back on my haunches, twisting my shoulders this way and that, trying to ease the strain of pulling weeds for hours on end. I had neglected the weeding last year; with the result of not only lots of weeds but lovely Butterfly Weed seedlings; a few tiny Russian sage plants; Monarda that had [...]
June 5, 2009
Skywatch Friday
I heard them first. When I looked up, following the sound, I saw dozens of Cedar Waxwings on the overhead wires, kibitzing among themselves. Like all travellers, I’m sure they were complaining about the weather, the lack of appropriate food, the boredom of flying all day and Junior in the back asking “are we there [...]
June 1, 2009
Bird Photography Weekly
Long shafts of dying light
filter through the trees,
illuminating the stillness with a cathedral grace.
Padding through shades of citrine and emerald,
I am alone in the hush;
a woodpecker drums on a distant bough
and a Hermit Thrush
with the twinkle of wings,
throws off his invisibility cloak
to search the leaf litter
before alighting on a twig,
camouflage rejected,
brown on brown with a [...]
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