Chipping Sparrow

For weeks now, walking along Salisbury Road, Blue Spring Road, Jackson Avenue, and Garfield Way, I have been picking up the dry, mechanical trill of Chipping Sparrows from the pines and conifers lining the streets. I started keeping a rough tally. Six, sometimes eight on a single walk. They are clearly there. They just rarely bother to show themselves. So I was not entirely surprised when one turned up in the sassafras tree outside the kitchen window. Surprised enough to grab the camera, but […]

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American Crow on Dead Tree

A crow high on a dead tree.

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More Trees, Less Birdsong

somehow far fewer birds — a mystery.

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First Light

playground equipment in morning shadow

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Common Grackle

Common Grackle perched in juniper branches

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Eastern Phoebe

Missed my dawn birding trip to Pole Farm, but a patient lunch break delivered.

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Twenty Minutes

Goldfinches in the juniper, a chickadee at the feeder, and a robin working the mossy ground.

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Homestead Coffee Roasters Colombian Tolima

A single-origin, USDA-certified organic coffee from Planadas, Tolima, Colombia.

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A Cooper’s Hawk in the Old Woods

A Cooper's Hawk had been calling all week. Yesterday I finally found it!

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Expired Kodak Portra 400BW

Spent two hours scanning a roll I shot nearly two years ago.

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