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• The Hawk and the Kingfisher

  

  By the time the juvenile Red-tailed Hawk landed on a perch near the Salt Marsh on October 4, it was sopping wet. It was practicing its hunting skills by buzzing over the ducks in the water and then chasing a Belted Kingfisher foraging there. The hawk and the fast kingfisher flew circles around one another…

  Teri Tynes

  October 10, 2025

  Artwork, Belted Kingfisher, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-tailed Hawk, Salt Marsh, shopping, social media, Yellow-rumped Warbler

• The Osprey Labor Day Tradition and Notes on Early Fall Migration

  

  In 2023 and 2024, I took pictures of an Osprey perched in the tree on September 1, so this year’s landing makes it three years in a row for that exact date.

  Teri Tynes

  September 4, 2025

  Black-and-white Warbler, Carolina Wren, Eastern Wood-Pewee, fall migration, Inwood Hill Park, Osprey, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Salt Marsh, social media

  birding, Inwood Hill Park, photography, Salt Marsh

• The White-breasted Nuthatch Makes Good Company

  

  While walking in the autumn woods of Inwood Hill Park, I often hear the insistent chuckle of a White-breasted Nuthatch. Cornell’s All About Birds (link) describes the sound as a “yammering.” These fast little birds scurry up and down and around tree trunks. They are black and blue-gray on the top with white breasts. Some…

  Teri Tynes

  November 22, 2024

  Artwork, birdwatching, Black-capped Chickadee, Red-tailed Hawk, social media, White-breasted Nuthatch, winter birding

  birding, birds, nature, nuthatch, photography