Dennis writes, from the Valley: “The first one arrived yesterday, buzzed right up to my face and looked in the window as if to say, ‘Where is the feeder?’ Within 10 minutes it was prepped and hanging outside the door. By 6 p.m. one male was giving another a feisty seminar on real estate [...]
Yesterday, Dennis Robinson, the Chickadee Dude (see our Chirbles the Chickadee pictures), spotted an indigo bunting, described by the Peterson guide as “casual” to Nova Scotia, in the Annapolis Valley. The startlingly blue-feathered bird watched the chickadees from afar. But finally, he decided that the chickadees had a good thing going and decided to check [...]
A beautiful day begs a bike ride. We headed for Martin’s Point, which sticks out into Mahone Bay between Oak Island and Indian Point. Martin’s Point points towards the many Mahone Bay islands that we like to sail to and around. Like many coastal areas, it has a mixture of century-old homesteads, decades-old bungalows, and [...]
I’ve just set up a new section of the photo album called “Chirbles the Chickadee, his Friends and his Enemies”. It features the nature photography of the “Chickadee Dude”, Dennis Robinson. He has a special relationship with his chickadees and loves to capture their personalities with his camera. Some of these photos of Nova Scotia [...]
After a beautiful day in the LaHave-Green Bay area I’ve posted a few new photos to Oceanside and a couple of new panoramas. We saw this Great Blue Heron on Bush Island, in the LaHave Islands chain.
It was a beautiful morning laced with frost which disappeared quickly. The birdsong was joyous, and made me wonder what it was like when the world was young, before DDT and all, when the birds’ habitat was their own. A song sparrow (right) was hopping around by the shore, blending in with the grasses. I [...]
Another duck in our local collection, alongside American black ducks, mallards and buffleheads. I wouldn’t ordinarily get such a photo, but there was a bush between us and the duck was preoccupied, I suppose. The tide was very high, flooding the marshes. It’s duck country.
