Monthly Archives: March 2011

Osprey Call

A Spring snow shower ended early this morning and the clouds gave way to bluer skies as I hiked around Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge.  There is good Osprey activity going on now with a lot of nest building.  The Osprey above was perched in a tree near a new nest and I was able…

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Sunrise at Great Falls

  Beautiful day here in Northern Virginia. The forecast for partly cloudy skies gave me the urge to get up early and head to Great Falls park to try some sunrise photos. The clouds were quickly moving off when I arrived but for a few brief moments, this group of clouds caught some nice sunlight….

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Further evidence

Further evidence of the approaching Spring from my visit last Saturday to Huntley Meadows park came in the form of increased bird activity. Great Blue Herons were back in numbers.  I enjoy photographing GBH’s because they offer so many different poses with their ability to extend, contract and contort their long necks. There was also…

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Wetlands activity

New growth is starting to appear in the wetlands of Huntley Meadows park.  I was there this past Saturday to check out the bird activity but soon discovered a lot more was going on.  Wildlife was easily spotted throughout the park, such as White-tailed deer (below) and one of the subgroups of the Eastern Grey…

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Good signs

  There are plenty of signs of Spring in the area.  Trees are budding and the birds of the season are starting to appear in greater numbers, although the scene above doesn’t really provide any evidence of these signs.  It is an abstract of a group of trees I found in the morning with the…

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