Framed Seagull Takes Flight

On March 30, 2021 By mvschulzeIn Birds, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Rufuge, New Jersey, Observation, Perspectives, Photography, Pondering, Telephoto, wildlife2 Comments

Yesterday, from down the Jersey Shore – framed in part of another’s house, …a Sea Gull takes flight on a ‘subdued light’ morning.
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Pre-Pandemic Shenanigans

On May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 By mvschulzeIn Annoying, Birds, Funny, Home, humor, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Photography, wildlife6 Comments

A TALE OF TWO HOODED MERGANSER FRIENDS

**ABOVE: “Well, what silly antics do you want to pull today?”**

**ABOVE: “Thank you, thank you! You can hold the applause, …there’s MORE!”**

**ABOVE: “You put your left foot out…”**

**ABOVE: “You put your left foot down…, and spin all around…”**

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Staying in Place …in a Pandemic

On March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 By mvschulzeIn Close Up, Family, Home, New Jersey, Oakland N.J., Photography, Telephoto, Trees, wildlife7 Comments

MARCH 22, 2020,

As we reel from the Covid-19 crisis, staying in place is critical to contain the spread of the virus. Meanwhile, in our backyard today, life went on as usual.

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Backyard: A Red-tailed Hawk Visits – TWICE

On December 20, 2019January 27, 2020 By mvschulzeIn Birds, Home, New Jersey, Oakland N.J., Photography, wildlife6 Comments

This Afternoon, (12/20/19) – Our Backyard

Below, …a little over a week earlier, this impressive hawk (that had been perched on the same branch as above,) was spooked (by me!) into moving a bit deeper into the trees.

Last image above: Probably about two years old, hawk-eye started acting silly, like any two year old, and in seconds, flew away. Thirteen days later he returned, as captured in the first two pictures at the top.

Thanks to Disperser Tracks for catching my initial error in ID’s this as an Eagle. Live and learn! M 🙁

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Insulators

On May 9, 2019June 3, 2019 By mvschulzeIn Photography, Pondering, wildlife3 Comments

Some twenty-five years ago, my carrier often took me on the road, occasionally providing time and places to explore. In this case it was a few miles east of Wellsville, NY – Allegheny County, just a few miles north of the central Pennsylvania boarder. I walked along an old, rickety railroad track that had seen better days, and captured these images, and a souvenir hidden in the Brush with a long ago downed and forgotten telegraph pole.