Welcome to my web site!
All of the pictures
on this website were taken with our Olympus Camedia C-730 Ultra Zoom 3.2
Megapixel or C-765 Ultra Zoom 4.0 Megapixel digital camera I really enjoy
taking pictures of nature and I wanted to share them with my friends and family.
All of these pictures have been taken by my husband or I through our apartment
window, near our building, and throughout Maryland, as well as birds pictures
taken throughout North America. I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as
I do!
Please check out my
other website, Aiy's Nature Pictures,
which has pictures which have been taken on vacations and hiking trips
throughout North America.
May 2005
We went on a Critical
Area Driving Tour along the Patuxent River, that ended at the Merkle
Wildlife Sanctuary. While we were there, we saw an osprey
and an eagle in
flight, as well as an osprey catching a fish out of the river!
April 2005
The Cherry
Blossoms were late in coming this year to Washington D.C., but they looked
spectacular! We went a couple of days before peak bloom to avoid the major
crowds that we ran into last year. The blooms were still beautiful
and this year we could make it all the way around the Tidal Basin. I also
got a number of new Tufted
Titmouse pictures. The pair that frequent the pine tree behind our
apartment kept coming back for about an hour!
March 2005
Check out our new goldfish, Tink and Irvell, in My
Critters. Sad news, Tink is no longer with us. :(
Spring migration brought Bufflehead
ducks to our local heron pond. I saw them on my way to work, and my
husband took pictures of them before they flew away. They are small diving
ducks (compare to the Canada geese in some of the pictures). I just came
back from conference in Texas and saw some birds, including a Carolina
Chickadee, some American Coots, a blue heron, a Northern Mockingbird, a Common
Grackle and a Downy Woodpecker, in Texas
Nature.
Two tufted
titmouses have visited our feeder a lot lately. On Easter Sunday I saw
a beaver in
the heron pond, happy as can be swimming in circles while I took his picture.
February 2005
We participated in the Great
American Backyard Birdwatch on Saturday the 19th. We started just by
seeing what came to the birdfeeder, but we only saw House Sparrows and
Cardinals. So, we went back to the pond behind our apartment to try and
find other local birds. We saw Ring-billed
Gulls, Canada Geese, Carolina
Wrens, a Carolina Chickadee, a Tufted Titmouse, a Crow, a Downy Woodpecker
and a Northern Flicker.
Later, I also saw a Red-tailed Hawk sitting on a signpost.
My husband and I took advantage of a warm February
Sunday to drive to Elk
Neck State Park on the Chesapeake Bay, then onwards to Philadelphia.
However, before we left, I spotted a beautiful red-shouldered hawk sitting in
the pine tree behind our apartment. We had not seen one in over a year,
but this time we were prepared and got some great pictures, including one that
enlarges, in Raptors.
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January 2005
This weekend turned colder, but we saw some beautiful bluebirds (in
Small Song Birds) at Great Seneca State Park. We also saw a downy
woodpecker (Woodpeckers),
some mallards and some Canada Geese. At home, I got some nice pictures of
some Juncos ( also in
Small Song Birds) in the pine tree outside our apartment.
December 2004
On the final day of the year, I was able to get a few more pictures
of one of my favorite birds, the Belted Kingfisher, in Shore
Birds. I also saw a great blue heron along the shoreline and added a
few close-up and shoreline shots in Great
Blue Herons.
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October 2004
Fall finally reached our neck of the woods! We celebrated by
visiting Great Falls and C&O Canal Park in Maryland. The sky was
somewhat overcast, but it couldn't hide the beauty of the falls and the autumn
colors, in Maryland
Nature. A pair of tufted titmice visited our bird feeder, in Small
Song Birds. We drove out to Green
Ridge State Forest in Maryland on a scenic driving tour, also in Panoramas2.
The road was very bumpy, but the overlooks were beautiful. ___________________________________________________________
September 2004
I took some pictures of a Great Egret in the
smaller pond by our apartment in Other
Herons, an on my way to take the pictures I saw a couple of cute fawns,
in Deer. ___________________________________________________________
August 2004
Our vacation in Michigan, Ontario and Quebec was
awesome! Check out our awesome pics of Red-headed woodpeckers,
Cedar waxwings and Common Loons have been added in Woodpeckers,
Large
Songbirds and Shore
Birds.
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July 2004
I just added ~40 new pictures to my website!
About half are of Great
Blue Herons, which are now their own category. Pictures were also
added to Butterflies
2, Flowers, Small
Song Birds, Large
Song Birds, Insects,
My Critters, Woodland
Critters and Deer.
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Finally, I got a decent picture of both male and female kingfishers! (in Shore
Birds) They are very flighty birds and never stay in one place for
long! Also, in Herons,
many new pictures of Great Blue Herons. I also got a picture of and
Eastern Kingbird, in Large
Song Birds.
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June 2004
We saw a number of tiger swallowtails (in Butterflies)
and dragonflies (in Insects)
this weekend.
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I saw a beautiful great blue heron on my way home from work so
rushed back to get my camera. I got some great pics in Herons.
After it flew away, a night heron flew past with a big fish and proceeded to try
and eat it for at least the next 15 minutes, also in Herons.
The fish was so big it didn't have success the entire time I was watching!
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May 2004
My website is new and improved! My pictures no longer enlarge,
but I have made the thumbnails larger for better viewing. I tried to
divide the pictures up into more categories so that each page does not take as
long to upload. This is my best solution so far to be able to post my
pictures and still have room for new pictures. The latest addition to the
site is an osprey (under Raptors)
that I saw flying over our apartment building. Also, a green heron was spotted
in a nearby tree under Herons.
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Spring is in the air! We have seen many new birds on our balcony, on hikes and
at the pond nearby. Check out catbirds, cowbirds, bluebirds, downy
woodpeckers and red-winged blackbirds under Small
Song Birds and Large
Song Birds. I finally got some pictures of one of the herons that
lives by our pond in Herons.
I also saw a cute deer couple nuzzling before they ran off in Deer.
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April 2004
This is our first spring in Maryland, so we had to see the Cherry
blossoms in D.C.! You can find our pictures from the Cherry blossom
festival under Flowering
Trees and Panoramas.
