Monthly Archives: June 2025
Crested Owl
Crested Owl: Gualpies, Costa Rica, May 2025 — A highlight of any visit with Cope is a prowl around the local forest in search of day-roosting owls. Cope generally knows where the Spectacled Owls are, and some years, he has a line on the Crested. This year a Crested Owl is roosting at the edge of the pasture at his parent’s farm. Easy. Though still a challenge to photograph in the darkness under the banana leaves. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator. The image, in order to show detail in the owl, is much lighter overall than it was to the naked eye. It really was dark in there. 🙂
Happy Sunday!
Prothonotary! Something to cheer your Sunday. Prothonotary Warbler, Magee Marsh Boardwalk, Oak Harbor, Ohio, May 2025. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator. Assembled in VDIT. Original improvisation on the Tranquility Harp by Gabriel Harps.
Bluebead Lily, Painted Trillium
Bluebead Lily, Painted Trillium: Rachel Carson NWR Headland Trail, Wells, Maine, May 2025 — Two more wildflowers from Rachel Carson. Bluebead Lily is still abundant and common in the Maine woods, and seems to be spreading at Rachel Carson, but, at least in my experience, Trillium is becoming hard to find. It was never, while I have lived here, abundant, but I can only find two individual plants where there used to 20 or more, and one patch along the Headland Trail that I used to enjoy seeing every year, has completely disappeared. Maybe there are places in Southern Maine where they are still common, but if so I don’t know about them. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 172mm equivalent (lily) and 202mm (trillium). Tripod mounted. Aperture Preferred Program with my macro modifications. Processed in Photomator.