More photos from Erie’s historic snow

Photo by Chris Bosak
Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Of course I have to post more photos of the snow that Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced during Christmas week. Here’s the original post in case you missed it.

In fact, I’m going to post new photos every two hours this weekend. What else do we have to do when its this ridiculously cold out?

My brother Paul pointed out this interesting composition. Leave it to an ex-Marine.

More photos from Erie’s historic snow

Photo by Chris Bosak
Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Of course I have to post more photos of the snow that Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced during Christmas week. Here’s the original post in case you missed it.

In fact, I’m going to post new photos every two hours this weekend. What else do we have to do when its this ridiculously cold out?

More photos from Erie’s historic snow

Photo by Chris Bosak Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Photo by Chris Bosak
Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Of course I have to post more photos of the snow that Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced during Christmas week. Here’s the original post in case you missed it.

In fact, I’m going to post new photos every two hours this weekend. What else do we have to do when its this ridiculously cold out?

Somewhere there’s a playground under all that snow.

More photos from Erie’s historic snow

Photo by Chris Bosak Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Photo by Chris Bosak
Historic snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2017.

Of course I have to post more photos of the snow that Erie, Pennsylvania, experienced during Christmas week. Here’s the original post in case you missed it.

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?

Snowy shot to start the weekend

Photo by Chris Bosak  A dark-eyed junco perches on a sled in search for seeds during a snowfall in December 2017.

Photo by Chris Bosak
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

Getting into the holiday spirit with this bird photo

Photo by Chris Bosak A tufted titmouse perches on a branch after a Dec. 2017 snow fall.

Photo by Chris Bosak
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.

More turkey talk III

photo by Chris Bosak

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

More turkey talk II

photo by Chris Bosak

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.

More turkey talk

photo by Chris Bosak

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 Tuesday’s photo.

For the Birds: It’s turkey time

Here is the latest For the Birds column, which runs in several New England newspapers.

Photo by Chris Bosak Wild Turkey in New England, Jan. 2013.

Photo by Chris Bosak
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.

Thanks to the work of fish and wildlife departments from several states, the wild turkey is a fairly common sighting throughout New England again. The native bird was abundant throughout New England when the first settlers arrived, but the forests were cleared for farming and the turkey was extirpated from the region in the 1800s.

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.

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