Category: Wildlife

When the sunflowers start to die, birds like this American Goldfinch take over and enjoy snacking on the seeds.

What could be prettier than a yellow Swallowtail on a sunflower?

 

I’ve never really spent time at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area other than during the winter snow goose migration, but I have ventured out a few times this summer and have not been disappointed.  Each time I’ve come home with photos that make me fall in love with nature photography all over again!  Here’s a Great Blue Heron in the lake near the Visitor Center.  Can you see the droplets of water coming off of it’s beak and into the water?

Every now and then I spot something while driving and have to immediately pull over to take a photo.  This was one of those “Whoa Stop!” moments.  It was somewhere in New Jersey, along the side of a busy highway.  I’m lucky to have grabbed the shot before being swept off the side of the road by the traffic that was whizzing past me!

This is a follow up to yesterday’s post featuring nest building Osprey.  This was prize construction material gleaned from the shoreline in New Jersey.