Tag Archives: Poor Farm Swamp
11.22.2022 Punk!
This Green Heron, from 2008, gave me about a dozen great poses.
11.08.2022 Turtle Tuesday-Morning Stretch
We’ve been having unusually warm days recently. That ends today but yesterday made it to 70° again and this painted turtle was basking in the intermittent sunshine.. There were two but the second decided to take a dip while I … Continue reading
08.19.2022 Frog Friday-Ah Youth
While jockeying for position between the two Frog Friday shots of August 5, I spotted this young and colorful bullfrog sitting a few feet away from the larger and more mature frog. Female bullfrog-Lithobates catesbeianus in Poor Farm Swamp on … Continue reading
08.05.2022 Happy Frog Friday
Prior to finding the Green Herons this past Monday, I came across several bullfrogs enjoying Poor Farm Swamp’s quiet morning. This little guy was the first. Others to follow on future FFs….or sooner. My first attempt of the morning. I … Continue reading
08.01.2022 My morning with Butorides virescens
AKA Green Heron. I decided to walk the rail trail this morning looking for frogs. It was overcast which would be good at cutting down the glare that is sometimes unavoidable on a sunny day with a wet frog. Even … Continue reading
07.10.2022 Prey Manipulation in Great Blue Herons
Sounds pretty scientific, huh? I’m no scientist but did read a little bit about what is going on in this image. This is the same heron I posted images of from a month ago. It caught this fish, a catfish … Continue reading
07.08.2022 Happy Frog Friday!
While walking along the Norwottuck Rail Trail on the 4th of July I spotted this little Green Frog enjoying the sunny morning. Green Frog-Lithobates clamitans fma Rana clamitans male. It’s a pretty easy life for a frog, just lazing around … Continue reading
06.14.2022 You should have seen the one that got away.
It was this big…
06.12.2022 Bwaa haa haa haa
So dutifully looking for frogs yesterday late afternoon, several folks told me as I walked along the rail trail at Poor Farm Swamp that there was a heron ahead. Sure enough, right at the second pond was this youngster standing … Continue reading