Migrating Snow Geese

Icy Morning Sun Pillar

Icy morning light pillar at sunrise. This is a rare phenomenon caused by the sun reflecting off of flat ice crystals in the air.

LeConte's Sparrow

Black-capped Chickadee

American Robins

Common Loons

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Little Gulls

Just Another Autumn Skyscape

White-eyed Vireo

Autumn Rainstorm over Lake Erie

Rufous Hummingbird

A vagrant juvenile female Rufous Hummingbird found her way to my feeders on the Chautauqua Ridge in western New York.  This hummingbird is native to Alaska and the Pacific northwest and spends the winter in Mexico and the deep south of the United States.

Black-and-white Warbler

Winter Wren

Autumn Sky over Lake Erie

White-throated Sparrow

A migrating White-throated Sparrow takes a break to bathe in a shallow stream of water.

Sunset on the Chautauqua Ridge

Happy Birthday Hudson!

American Golden-Plovers

Hooded Warbler

Ovenbird

Button Buck

Sharing the path with a young button buck.

Then the rest of his family showed up!

Wilson's Warbler

Late Summer Sunset over Lake Erie

Common Nighthawk

Backyard flyover of a not so common, Common Nighthawk at dusk.

Monarch Butterfly

Olive-sided Flycatcher

The Olive-sided Flycatcher is becoming very scarce and is only seen in western New York during a very short window of time during the spring and fall migration seasons.  It nests in far northern conifer and boreal forests and spends the winter in South America.

Happy World Shorebirds Day!

Wandering Tattler

Sanderlings

Least Bittern