Northern Harrier

Northern Harrier hunting on a dark December morning.

A Morning Walk in the Woods

Lapland Longspur

Merlin

Horned Lark

In the Dark of December

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December,

a magical thing and sweet to remember.

We are nearer to Spring than we were in September...

...I heard a bird sing in the dark of December."  ~ Oliver Herford

Winter Solstice

"On the longest night we search for the light,

 and we find it deep within...

(photo of a Short-Eared Owl hunting after sunset)

Open your eyes to embrace what is wise,

and see the light of your own soul shining."  ~ Lisa Thiel

Autumn's Last Breath

Northern Harrier at Sunset

Gravity of Love

"If you're in the eye of the storm,

just think of the lonely dove, 

the experience of survival 

is the key to the gravity of love..."

~  Enigma

Otherworldly

Short-eared Owl

More Tundra Swans

Tundra Swans

Pileated Woodpecker

the last rose...

Black-capped Chickadee

American Kestrel

Common Loon

Migrating Tundra Swans

Mallard

There is beauty in the most common things to those who have eyes to see.

Vagrant Hummingbird

Most likely a Rufous Hummingbird seen passing through western New York.

Eastern Bluebird

Moonrise

Tonight's full "super moon" rising in western New York.

Starlings and blackbirds migrating under the light of the full moon.

Luna in all her brilliant glory!

Common Mergansers

Bonaparte's Gulls

Rough-legged Hawk

Merry Samhain!

A Golden-crowned Kinglet and a song to celebrate the dark half of the year.  

American Tree Sparrow

American Tree Sparrows have returned from the far north to spend the winter months away from the Arctic.

Ring-billed Gull

This Ring-billed Gull thought he was having crayfish for dinner until a Great Black-backed Gull came by and stole it from him.

Immature Common Merganser

Return of the Snow Buntings

The little darlings of winter are back!

Immature Bald Eagle

Yellow-rumped Warbler