red tractor – SilverLining

Today, I saw all of this at the pond. I’m going to let the photos show you everything that was before me in about an hour and a half’s time.
Pileated Woodpecker

Snow Bunting – note white wing patches

Snow Bunting – see beautiful tail feathers

White-throated Sparrow

Tractor in adjacent field

Spider on leaves

Red berries

Bee in nest
(click on photo to enlarge)

Mushrooms on a birch tree

Bittersweet

Going to seed

There were lots of birds – this group of about two hundred (really) causing a cacophony.
It made me think of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”

Not sure what the bird is but perhaps a reader will know it by this silhouette.

Not much a formation here…a haphazard group!
Perhaps another clue to what bird this is.

At least five trees around me were stocked with birds in the quantity shown below. They had been far out of sight – I could only hear them, till I got to within about 200 yards of them. Then they flew out of the woods and filled the trees just above me….eerie…

Below is how I often see birds (in this case a male cardinal) – through a maze of branches. But this is what I like about what I see on my walks. And it is this that inspired the title of this post. What You See Is What You Get when you shoot photos at the pond. There’s no set-up, no lights, no posing, not the enticement of a feeder nor the constraints of fencing.

Berries gone by…

American goldfinch showing molting fall colors?

Or perhaps a tanager molting.

I hope you enjoyed what I saw in a day at the pond.

Lest you think all at the pond is flora, fauna, birds, bees, fish, and turtles, the photos in this post will show you the evidence of man’s presence that periodically catches my attention.

Yesterday’s weather was so summer-like, I decided to go for another quick walk around 7:30 p.m. Although it was still quite light out, as the next half hour passed, it became more difficult to get the lighting I needed for any photos. This was frustrating, since, alongside the pond, there is a two to three acre field, which someone, on a red tractor, was plowing. A grove of trees (entwined with Concord grape vines) and a stone wall on a bit of a rise separate the pond and the field. The tractor, especially its color, distracted me from the pond. I wish you could hear the sound of the scene captured above – the drone of an engine’s labor in the quiet of the end of a day. (I was able to take this picture by capturing light from the sky, which fools the camera – and me – in its ability to put light into the shot. It was nearly too dark to see the tractor when I took this picture.)

The day I thought to write the last post (which featured feathered friends, in two-by-twos, pursuing each other), just as I was about to head home after an evening walk, I heard two single engine planes overhead. Often I hear and see just one. But, that evening, two planes were engaged in a Snoopy v.s. The Red Baron game of, what appeared to be, chicken. I was dumbfounded to observe how close they would come to each other. One would cut the engine as the other gave full throttle acceleration, just as they appeared to me that they might actually collide. After ten or so minutes, of what I presumed to be non-FAA approved activity, one tailed the other off into the distance. Click on these photos to enlarge them.

A street runs along one end of the pond. Generally, I try to avoid having passing vehicles in my pictures. But,some days ago, there was a beauty of a red truck going by as I took a long shot of the pond. As I looked through the lens, I had the sense that time had zipped back to another era, like, the late 50’s.

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