Playing with Planes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 Can you count all the missiles under its wings:

 

This an Apache helicopter practicing air-to-land missile strikes at an air base in central New Jersey:

 

 

 

 

Predators

 Cooper's Hawk:

 

 

 

A family of Barred Owls I found in the Great Dismal Swamp in Virgnia:

 

 

 

On the same trail as the Barred Owls, another predator:

 

Check out the guy in blue, patiently waiting for the bear to cross:

 

An American Kestrel, our smallest falcon:

 

An immature Bald Eagle over Cape May, NJ:

 

 

This is a Merlin, our second-smallest falcon:

 

And a few more terrestrial beasts:

 

 

 

 

2021 More Cool Birds

 Tree Sparrow:

 

 White-Breasted Nuthatch:

 Great Blue Heron:

 

 

I love this highlight on a Mute Swan:

 

 Piping Plover:

 A flock of Least Sandpipers:

 

 Bufflehead:

 Immature Black-Crowned Night Heron:

 Tulip Tree flower:

... and spring Crocuses near my house:

 

2021 Cool Birds

 Wood Duck in Prospect Park:

 

 

 

American Coot:

 

 

Song Sparrow, doing its thing:

 

 

Eastern Phoebe nest:

 

Mallard:

 

American Oystercatcher:

 

 

Canada Goose:

 

Forster's Tern:

 

 

Killdeer:

 

American Robin family: