Tag: Wildlife Photography
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Green Burgundy Stink Bug
Up close and personal with a green burgundy stink bug (Banasa dimidiata) to observe and celebrate a singularly stunning coloration.
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Squirrel Sentry
Beware what you plant by your front door lest it attract hungry birds, deer, or a squirrel sentry! It’s too early still for flowering annuals to preside over the stone steps leading up to Rosslyn’s front door. Daytimes are warm, mostly, but nightimes are still getting cold. Soon, once the risk of frost retreats inland,…
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Wild Turkey Nesting
This time of year Rosslyn’s wildlife cameras document a noticeable uptick in activity amongst our natural neighbors. Springtime spurs mating rituals of all flavors, but reviewing recent images (including the wild turkey below, one of *many* wild turkey photos lately) my mind turns to wild turkey nesting. Perhaps you recollect my June 27, 2013 update,…
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Squirrel Splooting
Have you ever witnessed a squirrel “splooting”?  The informal word for a squirrel lying down flat is called “splooting”…Splooting is defined as the act of lying flat on the belly with the legs stretched out. (Source: Geography Realm) Perhaps you can see the squirrel splooting in this photograph that I recorded by the bird…
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Mustelid Musing
Willing unfamiliars into focus so that we may photograph Ermine, Marten, and Weasel…
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Oh, Possum, Opossum
One year ago an opossum sighting, an opossum photo, and an opossum poem. A familiar chain reaction fueling a familiar runaway post. The photo never made it into the post, and the poem — albeit a preliminary push, unready for prime-time — was buried in a morass of words more focused on Carley, our Labrador…
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Coyote Pup
On May 7, 2022 at 11:43 AM friend and wildlife steward John Davis made this video of a coyote pup playing in a brush pile in Rosslyn’s wildlife sanctuary. One of several he witnessed denning near Library Brook, I resisted the temptation to post this at the time in order to protect the location of…
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Mute Muse: Swan Song
Two years ago today the mute swan returned to Rosslyn’s reopened “duck pond” and — for an all too brief interlude — we celebrated. Many of us indulged a moment of optimism that the solitary bird, ill equipped for our harsh winter conditions, might manage to make it to spring. Let’s rewind just a little…
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Library Brook Bobcat
Let’s turn back the clock exactly 2 years to February 16, 2022. Why? To honor this beautiful cat! Let’s call her/him the Library Brook Bobcat since that’s where these remarkable photographs were taken. As I mentioned when I shared these images on Instagram two years ago, the originals were a little dark, so I zoomed…
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Play Daily
From our first fanciful forays — pipe dreaming and what-iffing — Rosslyn represented for Susan and for me an opportunity to play more. Or so we imagined back in 2005 and 2006 as we slowly talked each other into a monumental life change. Although fantasy and reality haven’t overlapped exactly the way we conceived, most…
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Rosslyn Reindeer?
Recent wildlife camera footage suggests that we just *might* be hosting a herd of Rosslyn reindeer. Or Eastern Whitetail Deer masquerading as reindeer… That handsome 8-point buck above is rehearsing his best Rudolph routine, and his nimble chum below could pass as Prancer. Captured with discretely located cameras in Rosslyn’s wildlife sanctuary, these robust whitetail…
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OG Bobcatting
Exciting update from one of Rosslyn’s wildlife cameras when I awoke this morning. Not sure why, but I always get especially enthused when we document a Bobcat. The sequence of three images captured at 2:29am appears to be the same bobcat we photographed a few months ago. Still healthy. Strong. Well fed. I’m struck by…