Here’s another photograph from my trip to Barnegat Light yesterday, of a female Harlequin Duck resting on a rock covered in mussels. Towards the end of the day, the Harlequins grew more tolerant of the many people walking the jetty and light cloud cover provided some beautiful diffused light to photograph these birds. [...]

Today I went to Barnegat Light to photograph the wide variety of winter birds that visit the area this time of year. I had quite a successful day and photographed Harlequin Ducks, Scaup, Brant, Dunlin, Purple Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Herring Gull, and Horned Larks. I also saw Common Loon, Long-tailed Ducks, Double-crested Cormorant, [...]

Yesterday Chris and I had an eventful day, rising early to photograph sunrise, then searching for hawks and Snowy Owls through miles of farm country before finally spending a couple of hours photographing Pine Grosbeaks along roadside crab apple trees. Tomorrow, we hope to make a visit to Wolfe Island, Ontario to look for [...]

Sunsets and sunrises are often very unpredictable - clouds that look promising may change right as the sun hits the horizon, obscuring the sun’s rays completely, or haze and stormy clouds may open up at the right moment, producing a glorious canvas of color and texture as daylight comes to an end.  Photographing sunrises and [...]

During the winter, Tundra Swans migrate south to feed, often stopping by Oneida Lake to rest and eat before moving further on when the lake freezes over. Because of the mix of cold and warm weather so far this December, ice has yet to completely cover the lake, and the swans have made some [...]

Feeder birds, such as chickadees, can often be quite easily photographed by using perch setups. In order to create a perch setup, you need to find a feeder that is visited regularly by birds, and you need perches. Perches can be collected just about anywhere. Look for branches with interesting features, such [...]

This morning, Chris and I visited Toad Harbor Point to photograph sunrise over frozen Oneida Lake. The sky was mostly cloudy, but the rays of the sun shone through an opening in the clouds just long enough for some brilliant color to light up the morning sky for a few different compositions. Then, [...]

Today Chris and I went on a search for some unusual bird species that have been spotted lately in the central New York area. First we drove to the Southern Highlands region of New York state to search for Pine Grosbeaks in Nelson and the surrounding towns. We drove for a couple of [...]

Yesterday Chris and I spent the day searching for hawks around Point Peninsula, New York. While we saw several Rough-legged and Red-tailed Hawks, none were cooperative. We did find four rather tame Ring-necked Pheasants, one female and three males, that provided an opportunity for some nice stock shots of the birds against the [...]

This year is predicted to bring the best winter finch irruption since 1997 to upstate New York and other areas of the northeast. What this means is that birds that normally stay farther north, such as Common and Hoary Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks, are migrating farther south in large numbers this winter. Chris [...]

Today Chris and I visited a good friend, fellow nature photographer Eric Dresser. Eric lives on 87 acres of wild habitat in central New York and his property attracts many different kinds of wildlife including a variety of bird species. While sitting in a pair of blinds near one of Eric’s feeders, Chris [...]

On Saturday, I drove four-and-a-half hours to see my boyfriend, Chris, and spend the holidays with him and his family at his grandparents’ house in Bernhard’s Bay, New York. I plan to spend the next few weeks in upstate New York and hope to photograph many wintertime subjects.
On Sunday, a Nor’easter hit the area [...]