Memorial Day

A boatswain's call in remembrance of our fallen hero's

Woody in the dooryard

Here are a couple I took in the dooryard. This is a Pileated woodpecker, they are big! This one is about a foot and a half. They look like dinosaurs and sound like them too! These two were the best I could get as it was on the dark side of the tree and low light causing motion blur on the head. Oh Well, I was pleased to get them no matter what.

Thanks for looking

Flower pics

Flower pics from recent trip to the garden store prompted by a Fujimugs challenge

Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Well it has been a while. Sorry folks. A lot has been going on to prevent me from posting. Here is the spark that hopefully will bring me back! This is the first butterfly out around these parts. It is still cold and there are no flowers up yet. These guys live all winter ! Then they are out early eating tree sap! This is the second year I have been lucky enough to get one.

Flying Squirrels

Flying squirrels in Maine?! I was surprised when I found out we have giant spiders that fish and now flying squirrels? Well you live and learn. We have been seeing some unusual activity at night around the feeder. If you stood real still with only window light you could see these "things" that moved incredibly fast and were jumping and leaping to and from the feeder. So I broke out the camera and got this image from about 30' with only window light for focus. The camera was in auto and I think it did a pretty good job. Anyway I had no idea we had flying squirrels in Maine. They are completely nocturnal and travel in troops ... now I have to try to get one flying!!

Snowflakes

These are not my best efforts as I was being lazy and using an auto exposure while I tried to focus! LOL as a result the cam used a low f stop so the depth of field was razor thin (I had my whole set of extension tubes on my Nikkor 18-55 kit lens hence the razor thin dof) I will do this again and promise not to be so lazy and set it up around F12 to get the whole flake in focus and break out the tripod as these were hand held. Meanwhile until the next storm please enjoy these.