Month: August 2013

Hummingbird Hawk Moth

I heard what I thought was a hummingbird in my garden, but it wasn’t big enough to be one. Instead it was a hummingbird moth. They are interesting to watch as they flit around from flower to flower. However, I found it very difficult to take a sharp photo of it because of its speed. […]

Mother Robin and her Babies

We were visiting my father in Burk’s Falls a couple of weeks ago, and I was able to capture some photos of a robin feeding her young … or maybe it was the father feeding his young. The  robin was quite curious about me taking pictures, but was not very nervous. She is used to […]

Cedar Waxwings

Cedar Waxwings are usually shy. We see them very rarely, and when we do, it is difficult to get good photos of them. They are usually peaking at you from behind leaves, like this one, or they fly away as soon as you look like you’re going their direction. I love their song. If you […]

Baby Loon

Last year, in one of my blogs in September, I said that we don’t see baby loons on our lake. However, this year we have. I’m wondering if we aren’t seeing them when they are very little, but possibly we have seen them when they were bigger, and we didn’t realize they were this year’s […]