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Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.
In fact, I’m going to post new photos every two hours this weekend. What else do we have to do when it’s this ridiculously cold out?
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A dark-eyed junco perches on a sled in search for seeds during a snowfall in December 2017.
Here’s a shot I took during last weekend’s snowfall. I always love the first snowfall because the birds come to the feeders nonstop.
If you got some shots of your own, send them along to bozclark@earthlink.net
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A tufted titmouse perches on a branch after a Dec. 2017 snow fall.
The holiday season is upon us. It can be hard to get into the spirit when you’re still working and you haven’t even started your shopping yet (guilty as charged). But here’s a photo I took after this latest snowfall that I hope gets your holiday season kickstarted. If it didn’t need kickstarting in the first place, then I hope this serves to enhance it. Happy holiday season from http://www.birdsofnewengland.com!
I apologize for the obnoxious placement of the copyright. The internet just makes things too easy these days.
photo by Chris Bosak
It’s the big day so why not end this series of turkey photos with a shot a nice, big tom turkey? Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for supporting http://www.BirdsOfNewEngland.com
photo by Chris Bosak
Since it’s almost Thanksgiving I figured, why not? As in, why not post a new photo of a turkey each day until the big day. Here’s Wednesday’s photo.
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Since it’s almost Thanksgiving I figured, why not? As in, why not post a new photo of a turkey each day until the big day. Here’s Tuesday’s photo.
Here is the latest For the Birds column, which runs in several New England newspapers.
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Wild Turkey in New England, Jan. 2013.
Somehow, it’s time for Thanksgiving already. It feels like yesterday that we were welcoming 2017 — by the way, how did those resolutions turn out?
And here we are at turkey time.
Speaking of turkey time, as I often do at this time of year, I will focus this column on the wild turkey.
After a few failed attempts, reintroduction programs in the 1970s and 1990s successfully brought the bird back to New England. The wild turkey again thrives in our region.
I have seen turkeys a few hundred feet from Long Island Sound at a park in southern Connecticut, and I have seen them on camping trips to Pittsburg, N.H., near the Canadian border. They are abundant everywhere in between, too.
My friend Steve and I were headed to the Forever Grateful show in Danbury, Connecticut, on Saturday.
We hadn’t seen each other in a while so we caught up at my place and hung out for a while. Then we stopped at a bar for a quick drink before heading to the festival at the west campus of Western Connecticut State University. Parking, of course, was a minor issue at the venue as we drove around the lot looking for a space. Eventually we turned around and headed back out of the venue to grab the nearest on-road parking spot, leaving a sizable walk for us to get to the show.
The reason I got into so much detail is because the timing of this had to be just perfect. If we hadn’t stopped at the bar, or if we had found parking immediately, we would have missed it.
As we headed to the security area, and there were, I’m guessing, Continue reading
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A cicada emerges from its nymph exoskeleton on a tree in Danbury, Conn., summer 2017.
This one was all Will.
I was throwing the football around with Will, my 10-year-old, when he suddenly stopped by a tree and said: “Dad, come check this out.” He had found a cicada emerging from its nymph exoskeleton. In all my years, I’ve never seen this before. I’ve seen dozens of exoskeletons lying round but long after the cicada had emerged and started making its trademark noises from the trees.
This was also like no other cicada I had ever seen before. To be clear, I’m no expert on cicadas. Far from it. But I’ve seen plenty of them over the years. This one had green wings, really cool aqua-green wings. And green legs to boot. Perhaps they will change to clear wings after it is in the world a little longer, but at that moment anyway, it had green wings.
Will took a bunch of photos with my phone while I rushed for my camera and macro lens. His photos came out pretty well, too. I’ll include one at the bottom.
Nature has surprises around every corner. Sometimes it takes a 10-year-old to find them.
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A cicada emerges from its nymph exoskeleton on a tree in Danbury, Conn., summer 2017.
Here’s Will’s iPhone shot. Not bad.
Photo by Will Bosak
A cicada emerges from its nymph exoskeleton on a tree in Danbury, Conn., summer 2017.
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