April 29, 2010: Black Vulture on Alden High School

April 18, 2010: Flowers At Home (Spring Time!)

A photo of our Mayapples, Ground Ivy, and Trillium coming up for the Spring!

Ground Ivy

Mayapple

Trillium

April 11, 2010: BOS Bird Count in Alden, and Rochester area Birding

A few photos from birding around Alden for the Buffalo Ornithological Society's annual April Count, and then birding the Rochester area...

BOS Alden April Count (at Billo Road)

Common Merganser

Buffleheads

Pied Billed Grebe

Common Merganser

Braddock Bay Owl Woods Near Rochester:

Above Two: Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

Golden-Crowned Kinglet

Horned Grebe

April 8, 2010: Birding Montezuma NWR, New York

A few photos from a nice Spring day at Montezuma NWR

Purple Martin

Green Winged Teal

Ring Necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Redhead

Bufflehead

April 4, 2010: Birding Iroquois, and Braddock Bay

We drove around today to several locations birding in Western and Central New  York....

Iroquois NWR:

Above and Below: Green Winged Teal

Ring Necked Duck

Tinker Nature Preserve: Henrietta, NY

Eastern Bluebird

Painted Turtle

Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

April 2, 2010: Flight Photos (San Francisco - New York JFK)

I got quite a few nice air photo shots from my flight today from San Francisco to New York - JFK.  No photos from the 2nd flight back to Buffalo.

Above and 2 Below: Mountains of East Central Nevada

Lund, Nevada

Sevier Lake, Utah

Ephraim, Utah

Fillmore, Utah

Huntington, Utah

Price River in Utah

St. Paul, Nebraska

Columbus, Nebraska

Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Newark, New Jersey

Manhattan (above two)

Statue of Liberty

Verrazano Narrows Bridge

April 1, 2010: Birding and Visiting San Francisco

First some photos around San Francisco.  I was able to take a few shots today after my meeting, before the flight home.

Views of Chinatown and Coit Tower from the Hotel:

Now some bird photos from Golden Gate Park

Double-Crested Cormorant

Golden Crowned Sparrow

Black Phoebe

Coopers Hawk

Western Scrub Jay

Close up of some cool pines