Out and About, Maine Edition: The Double-Crested Cormorant and The Osprey That Commutes

This guy flies by always going the same way, left to right. He settles in the trees on the other side of a point that sticks out into the lake.

We never see him/her go back the other way but here is the flyby from today plus;

• A Double-Crested Cormorant stops by.
• A bunch of Common Loons does Loon Yoga, it's a thing.
• The Spotted Sandpiper returns to hunt water bugs and Common Blue Damselflies
• The Ring-Billed Seagull chooses a new rock

Osprey

Osprey

Same Osprey

I feel that one cannot have too much "Osprey".

Common Loons

Common Loons doing Loon Yoga

Double-Crested Cormorant

Spotted Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper

Ring-Billed Gull

Ring-Billed Gull

Out and About, Maine Edition: Two More Firsts (From a Long Way Away)

Illustrating just how much I need a 2x Nikkor Teleconverter, these are two birds from a long way away in crappy light. First is a Common Loon shot from a great distance away.

The second, and a rare one for this area, is a Semipalmated Plover. I initially thought that it was a Killdeer but was delighted that it wasn't.

Common Loon.

Semipalmated Plover.

Semipalmated Plover.

Out and About, Maine Edition: Five More Firsts.

It's been a busy morning here in the woods on the shore of Sebasticook Lake. The following shots were taken before 9:30am around the cabin and from the dock.

A Spotted Sandpiper hunting Common Blue Damselflies on "Seagull Rock".

A female Black and White Warbler takes flight. There were three or four of them
chasing each other around a tree.

Cedar Waxwing takes a break from the aerial acrobatics over the lake portion of the
"we're chasing bugs show".

A Red-Breasted Nuthatch picking morning bugs out of the folds and crevices of tree bark.

A Brown Creeper doing the same.

Out and About, Maine Edition: A Couple of Firsts

I "captured" a couple of birds that are "firsts" for me. The first was an Eastern Kingbird and the second, a Red-Eyed Vireo. Both were in the woods around Sebasticook Lake, Maine.

I heard the Vireo a couple of days ago and it took me a while to call him in. The Kingbirds are all over this place but getting them to sit still for a minute took some doing.

Eastern Kingbird. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Eastern Kingbird. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Eastern Kingbird. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Red-Eyed Vireo. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Red-Eyed Vireo. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Red-Eyed Vireo. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Red-Eyed Vireo. Sebasticook Lake, Maine

Catbirds and Cardinals

These are from the other day, the same day as the Hummingbird captures.

Grey Catbirds and our resident pair of Cardinals.

Hummingbird!

I have a hummingbird feeder in the backyard and have seen them come and go. Yesterday, I sat and waited. The following set of pictures is of one female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. The red you see is the reflection of the feeder itself.

I've been asked about my post-processing process. I'll post something about it in a bit.

From the night before. Dusk on the cusp of night.

Same as above.

The following are all cropped from this distance.

Checking the feeder out. So many feeder spots to choose from!

I think we've picked one.

Yep, this is the spot!

Tongue out in anticipation.