Unsettled weather the last few days in Erie County, Pennsylvania (rain, etc.), with on/off rain expected today. Might be partially sunny tomorrow. Here’s a mix of sunny/shady nature photos from last weekend at Asbury Woods in Millcreek Twp, PA:
Tag: birds
At the Beach (3)
Back to Miami Beach early the morning of 29 September 2026: ID note on Sandwich Tern: adults have yellow/clear-tipped beak; juveniles have black beaks. (Juvenile on left in above picture, adults on right.)
LBH
Back to Key Biscayne (outside Miami, Florida) earlier this month, at Crandon Park, featuring a great sighting of lovely Little Blue Heron: Hard to tell scale from the shots above, but here’s the LBH in the background by the road, relative to an Egyptian Goose in the foreground (= smaller than Canada Goose): And a […]
Weekend Update (2)
Special double post today of more Erie County, Pennsylvania fall birds along the Gull Point Trail this past Saturday:
At the Beach (1)
With IBS in Miami late September, BirdingPI.com staff was mostly ‘stuck’ at Miami Beach. These shots at sunrise. Weather: cloudy, mild/warm, humid, tropical. Ok sequence of a Laughing chasing a Lesser Black-backed Gull (w/ fish): A deft Laughing Gull catch-and-release of ocean detritus: Coming up soon, lots more from the beach!
El Rio (5)
Today on BirdingPI.com, it’s the final post of a lovely morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, Arizona, back in August:
A Different Morning
Heading back to outside BIRDS HQ in Casas Adobes, AZ this past mid-August, early morning, featuring a gorgeous male Purple Shooting Star (a.k.a. Costa’s Hummingbird): Also Curve-billed Thrasher: [Editor’s note: after this photo shoot, the litter in question (the aluminum can), resulting from localized flooding in a nearby wash, was safely moved to recycling.]
El Rio (4)
Penultimate content from this particular morning at El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, featuring lovely Anna’s Hummingbirds: The little black-blue patch just to the rear of the foreleg (see red arrow) is what gives this lizard its name (“Side-blotched”):
El Rio (3)
Back with more from El Rio Preserve in Marana, AZ, this past August! Here’s a Vermilion Flycatcher partaking of a dragonfly exuvia; exuviae are the cast-off exoskeletons left behind after aquatic dragonfly nymphs complete their final molt into winged adults: Coming up “soon,” “exciting” IBS content from southeast Florida, including butterflies, flowers, dragonflies, plants, alligators, […]
Morning at Pintail (3)
Back to Pintail Lake outside Show Low, Arizona, in August, featuring (unless otherwise noted) White-faced Ibis (non-breeding plumage):