April 27, 2013: Birding In Lockport, Iroquois NWR, and at home

Western New York Land Conservancy Lockport Escarpment Preserve

 Chipping Sparrow

 Brown Headed Cowbird

 Eastern Bluebird

Flowers on the preserve

 White-Breasted Nuthatch

 Mourning Cloak

 Above and Below: Evening Grosbeaks

Iroquois NWR Birding and Spring Festival

 Peregrine Falcon

 Above and Below: Sandhill Cranes

 Barred Owl

 Northern Goshawk

 Red-Tailed Hawk

 Greater Yellowlegs

 Red Trillium

 Trout Lily

 Yellow Rumped Warbler

 Above and Below: Mourning Cloak

 Young pines

 Chipping Sparrow in Genesee County

Rusty Blackbird at home

April 18,2013: Birding Iroquois NWR

 Ruff!

 Killdeer

 Rusty Blackbird

 Northern Shoveler

 Red-Winged Blackbird

 American Wigeon

Bald Eagle

March 18, 2011: Montezuma NWR and Savannah Mucklands

Montezuma NWR Main Pool

Greater Yellowlegs

 Northern Pintail

Savannah Mucklands

 Above and Below:  Tundra Swans

 American Wigeon

 Potato Building at the mucklands

 Above and Below: Snow Geese

Back to Montezuma NWR (Mays Point)

 Bufflehead

Rusty Blackbird

February 27, 2011: Ithaca, New York and Cornell Trip

A few bird photos today en route to Ithaca, and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 Horned Lark in Ovid NY

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Feeder Area

 American Black Duck

Rusty Blackbird

October 24, 2010: Iroquois NWR, and Fire in the Backyard

A few photos from a nice autumn walk on Swallow Hollow Trail at Iroquois NWR

A mushroom growing on this stump

Fallen maple leaf

Autumn Colors

Rusty Blackbird

Small yellow flower

Some shots of our bonfire at home in the backyard