POTD 9/26/24
BIGLY CEREMONIAL - A monk beats a huge drum during a ceremony at a temple in Seoul, Korea in 1988. I was in Korea for the 1988 Summer Olympics as a digital transmitter technician for the Associated Press. (From the archive while I'm traveling)
POTD 9/25/24
HOMECOMING - I'm headed back to Indiana for Vincennes Lincoln High School Homecoming and my 55th high school class reunion. I started taking pictures of high school events in 1967 - including this photo of the 67' Homecoming spirit bonfire. This week while I am traveling the POTDs will be from the collection of photographs in the exhibit - From Tri-X to Pixel Puddles - 50 years of Paul Willis Photographs. POTD will be back to birds and the beaver pond next week.
POTD 9/24/24
GETTING SEEDY - A male Downy Woodpecker takes a sunflower seed from the sunflower seed feeder. The change in the weather seems to have made the woodpeckers favor black oil sunflower seeds. Fall is here in New Hampshire!
POTD 9/22/24
FUN PHOEBE FACT - We had a great birding year watching Phoebes hunt for and feed two hatches of chicks this summer. I just read that John James Audubon was the first to tag a bird and that he did it in 1804 tagging Eastern Phoebes nesting on his property. He attached thin, silver bands on the legs of several phoebes and the following year the phoebes returned - leg bands intact. We are expecting "our" Phoebes to leave on migration soon - and Audubon's banding experiment lets us hope we'll see them back next Spring.
