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January 13th. Fresh ice at the edges of Raymond Brook Marsh.
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January 15th. Mid-day. Not unusual to see a hawk perched in the tallest tree far across the marsh.
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But today was different. A Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); only the third one I've seen in over 12 years walking through Raymond Brook Marsh.
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Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis).
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Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis).
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Isabella TIger-moth caterpillar or Woolley Bear (Pyrrharctia isabella) our for a stroll at 40 degrees.
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January 16th. The Eagle has landed (again).
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Pictures slightly better than yesterday, but asking a lot of a little camera and an eagle roughly a quarter mile away.
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January 17th. Another foggy dawn.
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January 19th. A sunny mid-day after morning clouds and flurries. No sign of the eagle; I fear it has moved on.
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January 25th. Seventeen degrees; a slight improvement over recent single digit mornings.
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The sun made a brief appearance despite high and low clouds.
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Look carefully. See the halo? This is one form of "parahelia". Like sun dogs and sun pillars, it's caused by light passing through ice crystals in the atmosphere.
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February 1st.
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People have been out walking on the ice.
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In open areas, much of the ice is gone from the trail. Less so in the wooded areas.
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Male Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis). A confrontation between them just after I took this photo.
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The invasive Giant Reed Grass (Phragmites australis).
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February 2nd. Groundhog Day. Very foggy east of Route 207 in Hebron.
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Beaver lodge in very good shape.
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Raymond Brook Marsh very foggy too.
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February 4th. The day after 6" of snow (and the day before 6-10" more is predicted).
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February 6th. Bright sun and shadows...
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...from the old beaver lodge.
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A deer walked across the marsh sometime after yesterday's 8" of new snow.
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Despite all that new snow, the pine branches were nearly bare.
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