4.06.2007
Eastern Screech Owl red form
Adventures in Birding All photos and text copyright Peter Manship
Here are some photos of the Red adult Eastern Screech Owl located in Greenland N H. I hope to get back there in a month to see if there are any Babies heads poking out of the hole.
If I do find baby owls you can be sure I'll post some photos. When I went looking for this location I got lost for over an hour . I finely decided to take the next turn and see where it takes me, as I'm driving down this road through the woods I thought to myself ( I'll never find the Owl in all these trees ) then I looked up the last big tree and there it was. Twenty five feet up in a hundred fifty year old Maple just look en out of the old branch hole . What Luck !!! Till Then.
Peace
Pete
Robins and the April 4th 2007 Snow Storm
Adventures in Birding
Finding a Hermit Thrush
All photos and text copyright Peter Manship
I had to go to town at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, as I was driving on route 103 into town when I noticed Robins on the Sumac trees eating the berries. In fact as I got closer to town there was a large patch of Sumac with hundreds of birds. At first all I could see was Robins and European Starlings they looked very nice on the red tops of the Sumac, so I stopped to take a few photos. Birds were flying everywhere an I was panning across the tree tops to find a good photo , there it was a brown bird the camera focused and I couldn't believe what I was looking at a Hermit Thrush.
It's April 5th snowing the ground is covered with 10 inches of new snow and here is a Hermit Thrush.I sat in the car taking photos of the birds eating the berries , there was; Starlings, Robins,Grackles ,Crows plus Juncos and Sparrows working the ground along with one lonely Hermit Thrush.
The Robins were everywhere I looked all three Sumac groves along route 103 were covered with birds all Looking for food after the snow storm. It seemed like there was a Robin on the top of each branch, hundreds of birds singing , fighting for the berries and even the crows were eating them.
All photos and text copyright Peter Manship
I had to go to town at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, as I was driving on route 103 into town when I noticed Robins on the Sumac trees eating the berries. In fact as I got closer to town there was a large patch of Sumac with hundreds of birds. At first all I could see was Robins and European Starlings they looked very nice on the red tops of the Sumac, so I stopped to take a few photos. Birds were flying everywhere an I was panning across the tree tops to find a good photo , there it was a brown bird the camera focused and I couldn't believe what I was looking at a Hermit Thrush.
It's April 5th snowing the ground is covered with 10 inches of new snow and here is a Hermit Thrush.I sat in the car taking photos of the birds eating the berries , there was; Starlings, Robins,Grackles ,Crows plus Juncos and Sparrows working the ground along with one lonely Hermit Thrush.
The Robins were everywhere I looked all three Sumac groves along route 103 were covered with birds all Looking for food after the snow storm. It seemed like there was a Robin on the top of each branch, hundreds of birds singing , fighting for the berries and even the crows were eating them.The sites and sounds of spring!
Peace
Carol and Pete
