2021 New England Bird Calendars for sale

Hummingbird Moths look and act remarkably like real birds. They are beautiful! This is the first one I’ve ever see-it was in my garden, feeding on a Bee Balm flower. Official name is “Hummingbird Clearwing” (Hemaris thysbe).
After a long winter, extending into April, Finally, Spring!
My new show is hung at Seven Stars Arts center in Sharon Vermont. It will be up through August.
http://www.sevenstarsarts.org/index.html
Look at the schedule of events and activities to find out when they are open. There are no regular hours for the show, but there is a lot going on!
Here are a few of the works to be seen:
I love to make stories with my photos, even if they are not all “perfect” pictures, but sometimes documentation is worth more than perfection. A few days ago I was surprised to see a bright Yellow-rumped Warbled on my suet feeder. It had been cold and rainy all day. The feeder was almost empty, but he was very determined to glean a crumb. I took these shots through a window. After he left I put more suet in the feeder and he came back for a better meal.
Brilliant Scarlet Tanager Arrives May 1, 2017
Found along a busy roadside-saw this bright speck and came to a screeching halt (safely). He flitted all around, but posed for me briefly. This is an early date for a Scarlet to arrive here in Vermont.
A pair of Bald Eagles have a nest in the area, and these photos were taken when 2 nestlings seemed newly hatched.
The birds at home were pretty hungry and came to our feeders. April Fools day dumped a foot of snow on us!
JUST A RANDOM COLLECTION OF BIRDS AROUND HOME IN VERMONT…WAITING FOR SPRING!
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Once again I have created a calendar with new photos of Vermont birds. Although that’s the title, they are really appropriate for most species found in New England. I am a long-time local photographer. Most of my work is bird photography, so I’ve put together a 2017 calendar of Vermont birds. It is 11″ x 8 1/2″, wire bound printed on heavy stock, very nice color.
Go to my “shopping cart” page to purchase with Paypal. Here are a few images from the calendar.
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I spied this lovely fox in a field and soon noticed her kits coming out of their den. They stayed out a short while before getting frightened by some loud crows.
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Spring is so exciting here in Vermont. Every day brings a new surprise. For the first time I am seeing a yellow-bellied Sapsucker at my suet. He seems to have to raise his head to swallow the stuff. (Taken through a dirty window). There seem to be Bitterns (usually rare and elusive) everywhere. Here is the Sapsucker sharing suet with a Downy Woodpecker. And closer views of the amazing bittern with a frog, and after “lunch”.
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This bird had quite a struggle with the frog, but it finally got eaten. Took over 10 minutes from capture to swallow. Here is a sequence, lasting about 10 minutes. (Just a few pictures culled from the whole).
Spring is always an exciting time with the return of songbirds and migrants. Here are a few that I’ve seen in the past month. They are, in order:
Fox Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, Bohemian Waxwings-from a flock of about 45, Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak (female), Evening Grosbeak (male), Goldfinch male-(molting into new plumage), A pair of Hooded Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers in flight, Dark-eyed Junco, Belted kingfisher, Mourning Dove, Pine Siskin, Rusty Blackbird, Tree Swallow, Tree Swallows on a nest box, Tree Swallows fighting over the nest box, Vesper Sparrow (3 pictures) (this bird came very early in the season, in the snow), Wilson’s Snipe and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-just arrived, Killdeer and Green-winged Teal (female).
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