Broad Winged Hawk at Seneca Park 10-17-15

If I have the identification wrong, I'll gladly fix it, but the best I can tell is that this is a Broad Winged Hawk.  All formatted at 1920x1080

Soothe your nerves with this Calm Cascade

Found this little creek a could weeks ago somewhere between Farmington and Victor, New York.  In this crazy world of 24-hour connectedness and deadlines deadlines deadlines, a moment of quiet reflection can only help your soul.

Only 1 for now.  More coming...

Keywords - cascade, waterfall, stream, woods, trees, rocks, water, green, New York, nature

Red-Headed Woodpecker

This little guy just loved this dead tree that was on our campsite in Michigan.  I've never been fortunate enough to get a woodpecker before, and he came back on the second day for more bugs, and I just shot and shot and shot.  Next time I'm using the 3200, as I know the details aren't quite what I'd like them to be.

Shut up!  I'm tryin' ta eat over here!

Oh!  Hi Guys!

I87 Bridges over NYS 146

While photographing this, I had a cop stop and beckon me over to talk to him.  After all that crap I figured I had to do something with the pix.  This is what I came up with.  I'm half-tempted to photoshop some sort of spaceship(s) or race car(s) into it.  Suggestions?

A Couple New Items

Sunrise over the Greater Rochester International Airport, August 8, 2015

Osprey family outside Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, Aug. 2, 2015

Montezuma July 2015

We went back to our favorite place, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge.  I got a few good bird pix a whole ton of lousy ones.  When returning from an out of town trip, I noticed the Snowy Egrets were in town, and I really wanted to get a few of those before they migrated away again.
The results (I may be able to process a few more to respectability.)

This one's the one I'm currently using myself (I don't go in for that fancy-schmancy Windows 8 slideshow wallpaper... too much system resources wasted.)  I just love the way the one is taking off while the other ones just stand there.  In the manner of pigeons in the park or sparrows in a tree, these guys also have "personal space" issues, and when one is too close to another, usually the apparently offended party will flit away to someplace only a couple yards away.  But it sure makes for impressive-looking take-off shots.

FB Flower Challenge Day 3

Yeah... almost forgot.