Monday, August 22, 2016

Great Blue Heron Looks Like Peanuts' Pig-Pen, 8/22/16, Fisk Pond - Natick

Cooper's Hawks and Red-tailed Hawks, 8/22/16, Pegan Cove Park - Natick

This video shows two juvenile cooper's hawks perched in trees and an adult and juvenile red-tailed hawk flying over the same area. The first cooper's hawk is heard calling just before the second takes flight, they were perched near each other. Just after the cooper's hawk takes flight, an adult red-tailed hawk call is heard. The two red-tailed hawks were flying near each other over the area the cooper's hawks were perched.

Eastern Painted Turtle, 8/22/16, Fisk Pond Natick

Frog, 8/22/16, Pegan Cpve Park - Natick

Mute Swans and Cygnets Eating Duckweed, 8/22/16, Fisk Pond - Natick

Mist, 8/22/16, Fisk Pond

Monday, August 15, 2016

House Wrens, 8/15/16, Pegan Cove Park - Natick






Great Blue Heron, 8/15/169, Rt 135 Speen St NW Pond - Natick



Downy Woodpecker, 8/15/16, Fisk Pond - Natick

Frog, 8/15/16, Pegan Cove Park

Milkweed, 8/15/16 Fisk Pond - Natick


Bee, 8/15/16, Fisk Pond - Natick

Spider's Web, 8/15/16, Middlesex Path - Natick

Fisk Pond, 8/15/16, Natick

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Great Blue Heron, 8/11/16, Farm Pond - Framingham

Pied-billed Grebe Catching Fish, 8/11/16, Farm Pond - Framingham



Great Blue Heron Throat Fluttering, 8/11/16, Farm Pond Park - Framingham





Kingbirds, 8/11/16, Farm Pond - Framingham



Kingbird Chases Away Blue Jay, 8/11/16, Cushing Memorial Park - Framingham



Juvenile Bald Eagle, 8/11/16, Foss Reservoir - Framingham

House Wren, 8/11/16, Aqueduct Trail - Framingham

Wild Turkey, 8/11/16, Aqueduct Trail, Framingham

Monday, August 8, 2016

Dragonflies, 8/8/16, Fisk Pond - Natick







Osprey Bathing, 8/8/16, Fisk Pond - Natick



In the video below, the osprey shakes water off itself while flying several times: at 0:27, 1:38, 3:05, (and 4:44 which is in the preview at 0:27). For easiest viewing of these times: stop the player, switch to full screen mode, cue the video to the desired time, then start the player.

Frog, 8/8/16, Fisk Pond

Great Blue Heron Foraging, 8/8/16, Rt 135 Speen St NW Pond



Tree Swallow Feeding, 8/8/16, Fisk Pond - Natick

Belted Kingfisher, 8/8/16, Rt 138 Speen St. NW - Natick


Red-tailed Hawk Juvenile, 8/8/16, Pegan Cove Park - Natick