Tuesday 31 August 2010

s. dykes.


                                           mature male - common darter

Monday 30 August 2010

s.landing

turnstone in tandem
redshank

Sunday 29 August 2010

Swan Point Cemetery, Providence RI, mid-August.


                                        
                                               Barred Owl.

Thursday 26 August 2010

a bug, a damsel and 3 sallows


Orange Sallow


Shield Bug


Banded Demoiselle


Bordered Sallow



Centre-barred Sallow

Monday 23 August 2010

Bordered Beauty

Caught at Rudston

Friday 20 August 2010

Back garden comes up trumps.

common darterbrimstone
First dragonfly for my pond plus first ever brimstone for the garden, plus wall brown, female above, male under

Monday 16 August 2010

Common Terns, Gooseberry Island, Massachusetts.

I love how they are all wing, amazing.















Some banded on the left leg, some right, one both. Any idea why? My Canadian bander buddies all clamp the same leg (right).

Least Terns - August, Barrington RI.





Sunday 15 August 2010

Shorebirds - Aug., Mass/RI.





Spent a couple of hours last Sunday morning with three Spotted Sandpipers in Riverside Cemetery, Providence, RI.



Naragansett Bay isn't the cleanest, but this level of toxic induced deformation still came as a surprise.