Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus
Come along in Red Canoe as she explores the quiet backwater of Ohio's State Parks and the scenic streams and rivers of the Midwest. Discover the beauty hidden beyond the water's edge, quietly waiting, past access points, often only inches deep!
Come browse my photography site, Nature Remains: nothing but a photograph, for full-page slide shows of my favorite images and opportunities to purchase them.
In Spring of 2008, I began the study of 2 vernal pools on my property as part of the Ohio Vernal Pool Partnership monitoring program.
My 2008 journal includes the first photos and findings, as I studied this fascinating wetland area just a few steps beyond my backdoor...
2009 photos and findings,
2010,... again!
Now, 4 years later, another season is just days away!
Travel beyond the Midwest has taken me to some beautiful places. Usually off the beaten track, these places are WILD!
Acadia National Park
New River Nature Festival
Olympic National Park
Pictured Rocks and the UP
Voyageurs National Park
(click on the text above each photo for a quick get-away)
A regularly appearing feature, "Have you seen..." takes a closer, more patient look at things usually not seen in a flattering light.
Take a look!
Each spring, as winter lessens its grip and days warm with the first fragrant breezes of a new season, we collect sap from our Sugar Maples and produce just enough syrup for ourselves for the coming year.
The progress of this year's backyard endeavor is illustrated here.
Summer 2008, the tiny jewel of the avian world, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, nested just feet from my front door. Pictures of her nest and the changing lives within are collected in this journal.
From life the size of a pea....
Cats that come to stay
(click on the text above each photo for stories in these collections)
13 comments:
I can imagine. And, hope. Wish. Dream.
that would be wonderful to see, yet alone photograph!
The words....the picture.....awesome!
I am so in awe of the Pileateds that I truly cannot imagine the Ivory Billed. Wouldn't that be a sight to behold?
Is anyone else humming a Joni Mitchell tune?
Oh you lucky (no, really talented) woman, you!!!! WOW... I am in awe....
Now.... I've tagged you for the 6 random things meme... I sure hope you'll play along.... I'm really admire everything about your blog and wanted to know more about you....
we can only hope we can bring back those times !!!
beautiful words !!
I can only imagine what it must have felt like to see an Ivory-billed Woodpecker flash though an ancient wood.
And those who continue to hope, follow to this day.
But, would we look differently at all things if we knew it might be one of the last times we would see them? Because, the last is never known until gone.
Beautiful Nina. I can only imagine. I'm still hoping to see a Pileated Woodpecker someday.
It is difficult to imagine so many PIWOs. Now I can imagine the Passenger Pigeons because of seeing so many Rock Doves gathering along wires and how they swoop into fields to feed then get up together to swirl around before they go someplace to roost. It would be great to see Passenger Pigeons again. Of course it willnever happen. That is so sad. I wonder how many generations will be able to see the Pileated Woodpecker. When will they be arguing about whether or not one was seen in the local woods...
Another pileated! These guys are huge. I am always surprised by the mass.
I love the poetry of this post in thoughts, words, and picture. Oh, to resurrect an Ivory-billed again.
I'm one of the lucky ones as well
having seen and heard
thanks
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