Immature Bald Eagles

I Can Fly Too!

Who Me?!?

December Sunset

Black-crowned Night Heron

Red-tail Hawk

Sun Dog

Pretty Doe in the Woods

Great Black-backed Gull

A Great Black-backed Gull on a Lake Erie beach in western New York.  This ocean seabird does occasionally visit the Great Lakes region.

Great Blue Heron in Flight

Mute Swan

Rare Sighting in November

Common Goldeneye Ducks

Flying over Lake Erie today.

A Butterfly?

In Western New York?  In November?!?!

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Young Buck

Apple Slushy

...or should that read, slushy apple?

First Snow

Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard fact sheet:  SnowLeopard.org  (Photo taken at the Buffalo Zoo)

Scarlet Ibis

Native to South America, I photographed this ibis at the Buffalo Zoo today.

End of the Season

Caught you!

...but only temporarily until a soft breeze came along and set it free.

Morning Sky at Sunrise

Changing Colors

American Goldfinch displaying the beginning of his winter plumage.

Fairy Boats

Curve Ahead

Autumn Reflections

He who made kittens...

...put snakes in the grass!  ~ Jethro Tull

Late Bloomers

These Gazanias will hang on and keep flowering until we have a hard freeze. 

Buckeye Butterfly

A rare treat to see one of these in western New York in October!

Seagull Moving Stones

Mute Swans

for Donald...

In remembrance of my cousin Donald who passed on to spirit this morning. His pain and suffering is over. He is free!

Preying Mantis on Pine Needles

Milkweed Bug with Nymphs

Salute to Summer!

Cosmos giving a salute to the final day of summer 2011.

Stormy Night

Bumper Crop!

I live in an area surrounded by the most aromatic bumper crop of grapes in all of western New York State.  They smell lucious!

Last Week of Summer

Don't forget to stop and smell the roses!

Neighborhood Watch

This Red-tailed Hawk watches from the telephone poles in our neighborhood on a daily basis.

Evening on Lake Erie

Viceroy Butterfly

Very similar to the Monarch butterfly but is much smaller and sports a black stripe across the lower wings.

Reflection

Shy Swan

...on Cassadaga Lake

Mine!

Squirrel hanging on to her treasures with one paw.

Rain over Lake Erie at Sunset

Photo taken on the previous evening  (September 9, 2011)

Eastern Tailed Blue

This beautiful little butterfly is less than one inch in size.

Oriole Migration

I thought the Orioles were gone for the season but I spotted a group of males passing through and was able to catch a shot of one of them.