Snowy Owls, ospreys, and a raccoon … that’s a pretty good day. The ospreys have returned and were busy with their nest. One stopped to have dinner (a flounder) and gave me the opportunity to take an image away from the nest. While I was shooting the osprey, the raccoon just strolled in front of the camera. A couple of snowy owls are still around at the southern end of Island Beach. They should be heading back to the arctic any day.
Today was one of those good days. I was able to witness a couple of Snowy Owls together. At first I thought it was a dispute over territory, but they landed on pylons right next to each other and were not aggressive. Unfortunately it was too far to photograph them together. But I did get several shots of the one. I had walked a couple of miles though the sand. On the way back, I stopped to rest and took a shot of the moon.
Some days when you look for the Snowy Owls and come up empty, you need to just look around.
I went to Island Beach State Park yesterday morning hoping to photograph a Snowy Owl in the snow. After walking a couple of miles up and down the beach, I couldn’t take the cold and wind anymore. On my way into the park, I met this red fox that was quite cooperative.
It was a good day, I found two Snowy Owls at Island Beach State Park. After shooting about 300 shots of the first snowy owl, I changed the CF card in my camera. Somewhere along the dunes I lost the card, probably while taking out my cell phone. Posting this information on Facebook, I never thought anything would come of it. By some miracle, two days later someone who read the post actually found the card on top of one of the dunes. As a result, I bring you several shots that were on that CF card.
Pretty sure he winked at me.
A Snowy Owl just showed up at Cattus Island County Park in Toms River, NJ. It won’t be there long before heading back home to the Arctic. Thanks to a friend, Peg Tomlinson, for the heads up.
This male cardinal was hanging right outside my bedroom window this morning. His lady wasn’t far away.
I headed to Spring Lake with my good buddy, Bob Cannon, looking for the Snowy Owl I had seen a couple of days ago. We had no luck so we stopped at the fishing pier in Belmar and then caught the sunset in Spring Lake. Weather was in the 20’s, we didn’t last long on the beach. But it was another beautiful sunset.
The temperature was in the mid 40’s today, but the Barnegat Bay is still frozen. I was looking for the red fox that’s been seen walking across the bay.
I haven’t been getting out much due to the freezing cold weather. Tonight I went out back to photograph the estuary behind my townhouse. I only lasted about 10 minutes.
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