"A Sand County Almanac"

"THERE ARE SOME WHO CAN LIVE WITHOUT WILD THINGS AND SOME WHO CANNOT."
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"LOOK DEEP INTO NATURE, AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BETTER".....Albert Einstein


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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Sharing My Week In Photos

This has been a difficult week for wildlife photography.  Thank goodness for birds is all I can say.  This morning I photographed this Brown Thrasher, a species that is common in our area, but one that I have found to be skittish and camera shy...





I also photographed one of the resident Black Vultures at the Catoctin Creek Park and Nature Center...



Earlier in the morning I found this spike buck Whitetail Deer feeding in a field of wheat and weeds...


 
This Indigo Bunting caught my eye when it landed on a board fence.  If you look closely you can see an ant on its' tail...
 


I think the ants attracted this Starling...


In this photo you can see that it has a beak full of them...



This is a different spike buck feeding in a field of alfalfa in the early morning light...


A few days ago, while watching a favorite small creek, I saw this large muskrat swimming upstream...


When he came to a log obstacle he climbed over it instead of  swimming around...


In the same area, this Belted Kingfisher was searching for a meal...


The day before I visited the Lilypons Water Gardens...


Lilypons supports a wide variety of birds, such as this Barn Swallow, gathering nest material...

 
This brilliant Indigo Bunting was also at Lilypons...
 


A rusted fence post is a favorite perch for Tree Swallows...


This beautiful doe was eating clover not far from the road...


It has been about ten days since I last saw the Red Fox kits that I have been photographing.  I will try a few more times to find them but they have probably outgrown the den. Here is the last photo I took of one of them...

 
Thanks for visiting, come back soon, and stay well.
 

2 comments:

  1. Hello Stev
    What a lot of great pictures. I like the blue birds very much.
    Greetings Bets

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  2. Thank you, Bets

    Those Indigo Buntings are small but brilliant.

    Steve

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