Euro Starling
This is a European Starling. Not a native bird. They were introduced to NYC in 1890-91 from Europe. Of course, this guy is a local dude. He is proud of his European heritage but...
This is a European Starling. Not a native bird. They were introduced to NYC in 1890-91 from Europe. Of course, this guy is a local dude. He is proud of his European heritage but...
Not a day without a post. Not a day without a picture. Those are the driving ideas behind this blog. Lately, it’s been slightly corrected to not a day without a picture of a...
Hilarious response from our friend Guy B. on my latest photography sessions on birds. Happy Wednesday to all!
Our local squirrels do these routines daily. In all probability, for them it’s safer for them to travel like this. At least, on the ground there is always a danger to be hit by...
In the wild life, there are no pedestrian crossings. No street lights. No cops blended to the side street landscape. If those guys run, they run for life. Here, the camera captured how little...
I felt lucky when finally I managed to get a decent shot of this bird. There were plenty of swallows and martins at the Belle Isle cruising in their flights over the brooks and...
OK. Here goes a song of bird illiteracy of the author. Those are the pictures of the birds I made photographs of in the Belle Isle area and failed to identify them. Some of...
… or should I call them Robin Hoods 🙂 Robin is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. There are plenty of these guys in our area too. In my opinion, robins with...
In the previously published article Jolly Sitting On the Tree , I incorrectly identified these guys as chickadees. Oh, well, I am still a newbie in studying the birds’ world. It was dark. The sun...
Mourning doves are mysterious and pretty. Or, should I say, they do sound mysterious and they do look almost like a watercolor painting- soft, smooth and subtle. The doves on the pictures were met...