Pink Tulips

Miniature Iris

When in the Springtime of the Year...

Last Sunset of Winter

Farewell to Winter

The end of another chapter in our lives...

Air Traffic

Waiting for Spring

Grey Goose Portrait

Was it something I said?

Wild Turkey

Chickadee

Icy Harbor

Pregnant

A Cold and Lonely Place

Red-tail Hawk

Ice Curtain

This curtain of ice at the bottom of a ravine along a creek is at least 20 feet high.

Wild Turkey

In an Ocean of Snow

Brrrrrrr.....

Wintery Sunset

Happy Winter Solstice!

The longest night has come once more,
the sun has set, and darkness fallen.
The trees are bare, the earth asleep,
and the skies are cold and black.
Yet tonight we rejoice, in this longest night,
embracing the darkness that enfolds us.
We welcome the night and all that it holds,
as the light of the stars shines down.

~ A Sunset Prayer for Yule

Winter Preview

Calm before the Storm

Hooded Mergansers

Decisions, Decisions...

Happy December!

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Fall Migration

Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers


Common Loon in winter plumage

November Sky

Splash of Autumn

Red-tail Hawk

Fall Colors in Western New York

American Coot

Nippy Weather

This young gull is trying to keep warm on a nippy autumn day.

Now you see it...

...and now you don't! Another rough day on the lake with 50 mph gusts and 15 foot waves.

Red Tail Hawk

Raw Power

Mallards

Immature Bald Eagle

This immature Bald Eagle with a green wing tag marked "B9" was photographed approximately six miles east of the City of Dunkirk, New York on Lake Erie on Friday, September 18, 2009 at approximately 1:00 p.m. It turned out to be the same eagle released in Tennessee last month according to information posted on the American Eagle Foundation's website. According to the website his name is "Sergeant" and is the offspring of a pair of non-releasable parents. Great work by the Foundation!!!
(click on any of the photos for an expanded view)

Preening Praying Mantis