Great-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
Tag: Phriday Photo
Phriday Photo – Roger Tory Peterson’s Birth Town
On our trip to Rhode Island, we stopped into Jamestown, New York, birthplace of Roger Tory Peterson. We didn’t have time to visit the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, but it was nice to tour the town for a bit.
Phriday Photo – Swarovski Bling
One of our rewards for participating in the birder-blogger event with Swarovski Optik was we were presented with a sweet Swarovski crystal raptor. We are not sure what type of bird the crystal is supposed to be but Northern Hawk-Owl seems to fit. Any other ideas?
Phriday Photo – Northern Mockingbird
While in Rhode Island we have started to see lots of Northern Mockingbirds. This was a life bird for Dakota, and a bird we seldom see in northern Illinois. Northern Mockingbird with earwig
Phriday Photo – Eight-legged Water Strider
Upon finding an eight-legged water strider we questioned whether the apparently clean stream was in fact full of radioactive runoff. Turns out, it was just a mating pair! Yes, they only have four legs each. Birdfreak is getting ready for a trip to the east coast, specifically New York and Rhode Island. Excited level: dangerously
Phriday Photo – Caspian Tern #213
Adding to our photo lifelist, we found this Caspian Tern while looking for shorebirds. This is bird #213 (unofficially) and a lucky find as a pair flew quickly by.
Phriday Photo – Lark Sparrow
A wonderful bird of open fields and prairie/grasslands, who can resist the face of a Lark Sparrow?
The First Duck Stamp
Jay N. “Ding” Darling Brush and ink drawings of Mallards by Jay N. “Ding” Darling, a famous cartoonist and noted conservationist. The artist was chief of the Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from 1934 to 1936. “Ding” conceived the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the
