Sun Bathing Beauties
Tropical waters cooling with their turquoise waters. Powder soft sand lending to a soft bed. What more to do but to bath in the sun.
A Stick at a Time
It’s time for an update on Zorro and Esperanza. After building them a new nesting platform last week, Zorro and Esperanza have been determined to keep their original home on the neighbor’s boat lift. To help them with rebuilding their home, and hoping they would build on the […]
A Spring Stroll Through the Gardens
Nestled near Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C. is the beautiful and elegant estate of Majorie Merriweather Post. The heiress of the Post cereal company, and Birds Eye, she purchased the home in 1957 and made it her home and museum for her fine collection of decorative arts. […]
A Barred Owl
A Barred Owl BY RICHARD WILBUR The warping night air having brought the boom Of an owl’s voice into her darkened room, We tell the wakened child that all she heard Was an odd question from a forest bird, Asking of us, if rightly listened to, “Who cooks […]
Tenacious
Well, I wish I could tell you that Zorro and Esperanza adopted the newly installed Osprey platform today. We had left some sticks in the middle of the yard for building. Zorro quickly seized the opportunity and took each and every stick. Only to…take it to the original […]
Build It and Hope They Come
In the wee hours of this morning at 5:30 a.m., I heard the cries of Zorro and Esperanza. I was thrilled to hear them, even though it was still dark outside. Last night, I was dismayed as they weren’t at their destroyed nest site on the neighbor’s boat […]
“Plumicorns” – Great Horned Owls
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. It’s “Owl” week! After enjoying the darling little Owlets in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and the Birds of Prey photography workshop last weekend at Carrie Murray Nature Center I’ve been on owl overload. Now that we’ve seen baby Great Horned […]
“Cupcake” A Lovely Barn Owl
Cupcake is a charming little Barn Owl. Full of personality and charm she lives at the Carrie Murray Nature Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She stopped by to check around and see how things are going. This morning was time for a photo shoot, and she certainly was working […]
Eurasian Eagle Owl
The Eurasian Eagle Owl is native to Europe and Asia, but not found in North America. Several do exist in America in exhibits, allowing those that can’t travel to foreign lands to set eyes on them. Considered one of the largest owls in the world, their pumpkin colored […]
A Sad Tale Indeed
With great despair today’s update for Zorro and Esperanza isn’t cheerful. I visited them two days ago, sitting in their high rise apartment, tending to it, making it perfect for the kids to come. Esperanza appeared that she was about to lay her first egg, but hadn’t quite […]
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 