Birds and Blooms

Kissed by natural sunlight,  Michaux State Forest,  Pennsylvania waiting the Spring warbler migration brings excitement and anticipation of my favorite of the avian species to photograph and sp...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2020/04/14/black-throated-blues/

hen one thinks of Orchids,   it’s usually of the corsage purchased for the High School Senior Prom,  or some of the breathtaking exotic species found at botanical gardens throughout our coun...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2020/04/03/woodland-orchids-an-endeavor-of-passion/

Once threatened to the brink of extinction throughout most of its range,  the American Bald Eagle has made an amazing recovery considering 40 or so years back their numbers were dwindling.   T...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2020/03/28/a-celebration-of-our-american-bald-eagle/

Tri-colored Heron,  San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge, Brazoria County,  Matagorda County,  Texas midst a mixture of old and new,  I decided to put together a collection of some of my favo...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/10/22/water-walkers-a-collection-of-favorites-from-our-coastal-plains/

Palm Warbler, Yellow (Spring)  Setophaga palmarum. hypochrysea Kowomu Trail,  Carroll County,  Maryland Like the Magnolia Warbler,  the Palm Warbler’s name has very little to do with its pr...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/10/15/just-passing-through-the-palm-warbler/

Our North Atlantic Coastal Plain Pitch Pine Barrens are a fascinating and magical ecosystem with specific plants and animals found only within these environments.  This blog entry is dedicated t...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/09/24/pine-barren-blues-gentiana-autumnalis-the-pine-barren-gentian/

Take a stroll down the “Warbler Road” of south-central Pennsylvania’s Michaux State Forest, and listen to a melody  and perhaps even observe one of its most prolific breeding songbirds, th...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/08/29/the-melody-of-warbler-road-the-hooded-warbler/

Growing up in the south and along the Texas Gulf Coastal Plains,  the coming of spring brought a host of colorful wildflowers and one of my favorites of the Iridaceae, (Iris family) and most abu...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/08/24/baby-blues-4-to-6-inches-of-colorful-splendor/

New Video,   Click the Image below to view via You Tube Filmed along the upper Texas and western Louisiana Gulf Coast,Spring  2019  

https://birdsandblooms.me/2019/05/21/springtime-along-the-texas-and-louisiana-gulf-coast-video/

Magnolia Warbler,  Setophaga magnolia Dolly Sods Wilderness,  West Virginia everal years back while photographing spring wildflowers and exploring one of my favorite mountain ecosystems along ...

https://birdsandblooms.me/2018/02/16/in-search-of-maggie-may-woodland-warblers-3/