Spring Renovation Home restoration is often a dirty job. Here, an industrious Columbian Ground Squirrel pauses during spring renovation of its burrow, den and mound. The soil on its front paws and heaped on the bridge of its nose and top of its head is telltale of its earth-moving methodology. One quick glance and the high-spirited rodent resumed excavation. ~ Anecdote and Columbian Ground Squirrel capture, Spring Renovation © Jerry L. Ferrara
To Build A Home Those of us who make our home in and around the beauty of North Idaho, and particularly near the watery environs of the awesome Pend Oreille, have the privilege of sharing this magnificent part of the planet with a most interesting, part-time local resident known variously as the Osprey, Fish Hawk or Pandion haliaetus. Globally cosmopolitan, the Fish Hawk is a true international entity for the Osprey nation inhabits all continents but one, that being Antarctica. When they return annually to our locale, generally from parts south, they industriously engage themselves in the duty of nest construction for to build a home is a major investment … the pivotal point from which they create, maintain, and nuture their kind … their future … their destiny. ~ Anecdote and Osprey capture, To Build A Home © Jerry L. Ferrara
What You Don’t See When in the wild, travel with careFor what you don’t see might give you a stareBut should you perceive that something is thereIt may cause shivers and nightmarish scares ~ Poem and Bengal Tiger capture, What You Don’t See © Jerry L. Ferrara, Kanha National Park, India
In the Realm of Solitude In the frigid and foreboding desolation far above the Arctic Circle a formidable predator, wearing the mantle of winter, roams the barren ice-clad ‘scape. The mighty Polar Bear is a fitting entity in the realm of solitude. ~ Anecdote and Polar Bear capture, In the Realm of Solitude © Jerry L. Ferrara
Spoils In Talon After diving into the water, the Osprey was having a bit of difficulty releasing itself from the lake’s grasp. Suddenly it popped from the fluid surface and off it labored, clutching its spoils in talon. ~ Anecdote and Osprey capture, Spoils In Talon © Jerry L. Ferrara
Coming and Going A pair of Great Egrets ethereally traverse the sky near their rookery … one coming and one going. ~ Anecdote and Great Egret capture, Coming and Going © Jerry L. Ferrara
Troubadour Not all of the composition and song from the performing troubadour is about courtly love. In part, the White-eyed Vireo is proclaiming a warning. ~ Anecdote and White-eyed Vireo capture, Troubadour © Jerry L. Ferrara
Venus At Four O’Clock Sometimes there are surprises. Arriving at our chosen site two days before the North American 2024 total solar eclipse gave plenty of time to assess and to prepare for the event … if the weather cooperated. Weather cooperated and the image shows the sun at total eclipse, but there was a surprise. The surprise was the appearance of Venus at the four o’clock position to the eclipsed sun. Sometimes there are surprises. ~ Anecdote and 2024 Solar Eclipse capture, Venus At Four O’Clock © Jerry L. Ferrara
Total solar eclipse 2024 USA
Total solar eclipse 2024 USA