This Saltmarsh Sparrow's nest was inundated by a spring tide. The Marine Nature Study Area director showed me a photo of the lone surviving chick, which was just old enough to scramble up a Phragmites stalk and keep its head above water and then make its way into a Phragmites patch near a footpath. For days afterward, the mother could be seen flying back and forth between foraging spots and the chick's refuge with insect larvae. This species is considered endangered precisely by the double-whammy of rising sea-level due to climate change and habitat loss.
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This red-breasted sapsucker was not camera shy and it was also at eye level, which allowed me to get great shots. While it was being somewhat ''cooperative'', I didn't overstay because it needed to eat in peace and get the calories it needs to survive.
My photos of the Hare were interspersed with pics of an #Oystercatcher family nesting on part of Bryn Aber, the former home of airman and (appropriately enough) ornithologist Captain Vivian Hewitt. There were three chicks, and an attentive father bringing food.
We didn't find the nest of these Pacific wrens, but they mush have fledged that day. the little ones were not good at flying.
Mom kept trying to feed them a spider, but none of them wanted it.
From the archives: a cottonwood borer that almost hit me in the head when I was taking pictures of butterflies. Seen once three years ago, and never again.
Sat working at home, when the squawking of Magpie children disputed my train of thought. I looked out the window to see the mother Magpie flying bank and forth from our mealworm feeder delivering lunch to its Juveniles on the fence outside the front of the house.