Crab Carcass on South Lido
Remembering Mr. Ju
The Fish Vanishes
Pretty Dead Fish
Nevertheless
Mullet Jumping
Lozenger Crow
Mask of Zorro
Ursine Blue
Red Horse
American (Bittern) in Paris
Too Many Hummingbirds
Seven One Way
Cattle Egrets at the Lower Lake
Cutwater
Black Skimmers start nesting on Lido Beach in April. Year-round, the birds skim the water with their elongated lower mandibles, snapping shut on surface-swimming prey. No other bird feeds like this, dipping bill in flight to cut a thin surface line a hundred yards running. Their bulky snouts are tangerine-toned turning to black at the […]
Murmuration on the Connecticut River
During a few August and September weeks, hundreds of thousands of tree swallows collect in vast murmurations at the mouth of the Connecticut River. With metallic blue-green wings and white breasts, tree swallows trace the air for insects. After feeding, the thick avian sky drops to rest on shoreline phragmites where the birds cling through […]
