Frogs on the Road [Video]
Friday night while the Spotted Salamanders were moving, I also had an opportunity to photograph some frogs that were also crossing the road.
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Salamander Night [Video]
Spotted Salamander Crossing the Road
Many know that one of my favorite activities to participate in is the migration of the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). This happens in the spring with the first warm rain of the season! Hundreds and I mean hundreds of salamanders come out of the woods to migrate to the vernal pools that they had probably been born in! But many have some obstacles to avoid before reaching the breeding pools.
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Famous for a Reason [Guest Post]
A Suet Bandit (Pine Martin)
Guest Post by Marg (aka makeupanid)
Last weekend I traveled to Algonquin Park with a Flickr friend and fellow birder. You would think being a birder that I would have been to Algonquin recently but I haven’t been there in years! I wanted to add Gray Jays and Pine Grosbeaks to my Life List-which is the only reason I was willing to get up at 4 a.m. on a weekend. I get enough of that during the week with my regular job! Algonquin has famous the world over and for a good reason. It is a Nature Lovers paradise. The boreal forest sweeps across it and it is full of birds, mammals and I’m sure reptiles too. But I was there for birds and some mammals-a Pine Marten and Fisher were on our species list. No luck on the Fisher but as you can see we got the Pine Marten-you can read all about him by clicking on the photo. This post is about birds.
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Blue for sky . . . Brown for ground!
Blue for Sky!
No time to play with the new camera today . . . . the mission was to get my hair cut and get some groceries. Mission successful! To complete my mission, I had to travel to Jamestown and happen to find 5 Bonaparte Gulls flying along the Allegheny River (CHECK, first for 2008)! I also had someone new cut my hair because Andrea who typically cuts my hair just had a baby last week. I would like to say thanks to Barbara who did a wonderful job with my cut and small world . . . she’s also a bird watcher!! We talked birds and I passed along my blog address for her to view this site! Anyone notice how expensive eggs and orange juice is now days! Ugg . . .
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Belted Kingfisher with the new Nikon D300
I got my new camera (Nikon D300) in the mail today and although it is the same . . . it is also very different from my older camera. The biggest difference is that I can’t edit my raw files with Photoshop CS2!! Grrrrr!!! I haven’t figured the raw editor that is offered from Nikon but from what I have seen online, it isn’t anything like Photoshop (big disappointment). I can’t update the editor plugin because Adobe doesn’t support CS2 anymore!! Uggg!! I am also having the same problems with my 400mm lens as I was having with the D70s!! I had hoped those problems would disappear with a new body (but it didn’t). Probably should have gotten a new lens before a new camera body!! O, well . . . with that said I absolutely LOVE the Nikon D300!!
DSC_0001 [Wordless Wednesday]
This was the first photo that I captured with my Nikon D70s!! I wonder what the Nikon D300 will bring me tomorrow (Wednesday)??
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