Wildlife

[Sbob]

 

[freeheeln]

Short-eared Owls have returned to the Washington County Grasslands. They migrate from the artic to spend their winter hunting for voles and entertaining the local photographers with their aerial acrobatics.

 

[Brownski]

Voles are some creepy looking little buggers too. When I was a kid I had a cat that had some kind of deep seated hatred of voles. She did everything she could to extinct the whole species

 

[Sbob]

Another reason not to retire in Florida.

 

[freeheeln]

There has been a wild goose chase going on in Washington County. Not far from Willard Mt in Greenwich I photographed the Taiga Bean-goose, which is a native of Europe and Asia, only recorded 3 or 4 times in North America and only this once on the eastern coast. I met people from Philly and Boston as bird nerds are flocking to the little upstate town and creating traffic jams.

 

[gorgonzola]

It’s always a treat to see the snow geese on the way to the hill

Apparently avian flu is hitting them hard this year though