An as-cute-as-they-come mallard duckling (Anas platyrhynchos) at Ashbridge’s earlier this week. © BCP 2010 Arrrgh! And superarrrgh!! Just when I was getting ready to do today’s post — which was going to be about how I spent a fascinating half hour right near dusk watching a family of eastern kingbirds feeding one hungry chick — […]
Sea buckthorn bushes (Hippophae rhamnoides) create a canopy over the path at Ashbridge’s Bay. ©BCP 2010 I actually took the photo above last week, on one of the hazy humid days that could make you damp just thinking about going outside for a walk. So this photo should have been posted last week. But somehow […]
The good parent — a robin (Turdus migratorius) is off to feed its chicks at Ashbridge’s Bay Tuesday. © BCP 2010 Really, I ought to get up earlier. By mid-morning, when I finally arrived at the bay, (Ashbridge’s), it was sweltering, even by the water and in the shade. A hundred degrees in the shade. […]
A mother mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) takes her seven ducklings out for an early afternoon paddle Tuesday. The little ducklings are so terribly tiny in such a big world. © BCP 2010 Well, here’s a bit of a conundrum. Seems the Ashbridge’s Bay mallard hens had a meeting, took a show of webbed feet, and voted […]
Eye to eye with a grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), in Ashbridge’s Bay Park, April 1, 2010. © BCP 2010 I was having my wake-up coffee yesterday and reading my morning paper — the Science section in Tuesday’s New York Times (the July 5th edition — it gets delivered a day late via The Globe and […]
