POTD 7/31/22

July 31, 2022 - OTHER RED BIRD - Male Scarlet Tanager at the top of the tree. Something about a red bird that catches the eye.;-)
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POTD 7/30/22

July 30, 2022 - YAY - We have planted lots of Asclepias (Milkweed) and to support Monarchs in our gardens. After seeing the news last we...
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POTD 7/29/22

July 29, 2022 - REFLECTIONS ON A POND - A beautiful day with a sky full of "photo clouds" at the beaver pond.
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POTD 7/28/22

July 28, 2022 - ZINNIA EMERGING - Zinnias are one of our favorite garden flowers.
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POTD 7/27/22

July 27, 2022 - CAUGHT IN THE ACT - We looked out this morning to catch this deer enjoying the salad bar that is our Hosta bed. We had c...
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POTD 7/26/22

July 26, 2022 - BIG BIRD - We got off the hill today for an appointment and spotted our friend, the "Greenville Eagle", hunting from a p...
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POTD 7/25/22

July 25, 2022 - HAZY DAYS OF SUMMER - Monadnock Mountain - hazy under summer clouds.
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POTD 7/24/22

July 24, 2022 - ENDANGERED - An International conservation group has listed the beloved Monarch Butterfly as endangered. The group estim...
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POTD 7/23/22

July 23, 2022 - SOLAR ROBIN - Momma Robin on a nest under the solar array. It seems like a good place for a nest.
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POTD 7/22/21

July 22, 2022 - POLLINATOR COOPERATION - Clouded Sulphur Butterfly and a Honeybee share an Asclepias bloom. Orange Milkweed is also call...
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POTD 7/21/22

July 21, 2022 - IN THE GARDEN - An Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly (I think, I'm not good with "bug" IDs) finds something to like about a sp...
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POTD 7/20/22

July 20, 2022 - WINNY LOVE- Winston, our neighbors' tortoise, wants to ram right against you to show affection...but with his hard and p...
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POTD 7/19/22

July 19, 2022 - GET A LEG UP - Just getting around to editing photos from a Riparian Preserve visit in Arizona where I saw this Black-Ne...
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POTD 7/18/22

July 18, 2022 - SHORE ART - Another photo from Long Sands Beach on Cape Neddick.
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POTD 7/17/22

July 17, 2022 - CLAM STRIPS - A Gull pulls a clam from a shell on Long Sands Beach in York, Maine.The Gulls gather clams left by high ti...
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POTD 7/16/22

July 16, 2022 - OCEAN SUNRISE - A couple of days of scenery change from the forest to the Maine Coast. Always nice to see the sun rise o...
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POTD 7/15/22

July 15, 2022 - FRITILLARY - A Silver-Bordered Fritillary Butterfly lands long enough for a photo They get their name from "fritting" ab...
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POTD 7/14/22

July 14, 2022 - LOVE THOSE CLOUDS - We usually don't like cloudy days...but then the clouds MAKE the picture...we like those clouds.
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POTD 7/13/22

July 13, 2022 - BEING A DAD - Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak feeds a fledgling. The immature birds flutter their wings as they beg. This ma...
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POTD 7/12/22

July 12, 2022 - OH DEER - Young deer deals with the "deer" flies on its head. Summer in New Hampshire - at least there is plenty to eat.
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POTD 7/11/22

July 11, 2022 - NOT KISSING - Two Jake Turkeys (young males) face off over territory. The strategy seems to be that the other turkey can...
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POTD 7/10/22

July 10, 2022 - FIRST MONARCH - So happy to see Monarch butterflies back for the season. Eastern Monarchs migrate in fall to overwinter...
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POTD 7/9/22

July 09, 2022 - WORKING THE WELLS - Female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker works the sap wells on a Mountain Ash tree. Sapsuckers drill holes i...
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POTD 7/8/22

July 08, 2022 - BLOOM BANDIT - A Chipmunk helps himself to Pansy blooms on the patio.
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POTD 7/7/22

July 07, 2022 - BEAVER POND WILDFLOWER - We watch for the Swamp Candles to bloom on the beaver pond. In the Primrose family, the delicat...
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POTD 7/6/22

July 06, 2022 - KINGFISHER - A Belted Kingfisher hunts from a perch above the beaver pond.
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POTD 7/5/22

July 05, 2022 - PHOTO CLOUDS - Clouds over the beaver pond.
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POTD 7/4/22

July 04, 2022 - BABY BIRD-ATHON CONTINUES - Blue Jay fledgling begs in the Ash tree. Jays as big as the adult birds begging to be fed....
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POTD 7/3/22

July 03, 2022 - RAISING YOUNG - Downy Woodpecker feeding young. Many of the birds that visit our feeders are bringing young and the wood...
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POTD 7/2/22

July 02, 2022 - HEY SUCKA! - Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker shows his namesake belly visiting an Ash tree in the yard.
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POTD 7/1/22

July 01, 2022 - FEED ME - Grackle chick demanding food at the suet feeder as the baby bird-athon at Sundial continues.
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