Sunshine Imaginings Photography

Monday, June 17, 2013

Columbine Flowers Found in the City Forest, Bangor

It has come to my attention that the columbine I have been photographing for the last 3 or so years is not Wild Columbine. Apparently Wild Columbine is reddish with yellow. The ones I have been photographing are pink. I mean, they are growing in the forest. The pink I have seen in more than one place, but perhaps that means very little. This past week, I was lucky to be looking low and found the most brilliant, incredible Columbine flowers I have ever seen. So, again I go and look them up. For sure this is wild. And there IS a blue Columbine, but I am not seeing one that looks like the one I photographed AND it is native to the Rockies (Colorado-Arizona).

Anyway, until I can get these flowers accurately named, let's just call them Columbine, and make note that they were found in the forest.

This photo below I got from Wikipedia which shows the Wild Columbine (east coast variety), colors as defined by my books and internet. Photo by Sage Ross. Notice the reddish flower with the yellow inside. My flowers are one solid color.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Pages

I am presently creating pages where I can post photos of certain animals etc. by group. For Example: "Field Flowers", "Insects" etc.I will continue to post on the Home page as well. Please be patient as I put this feature together.

-Thanks

Monday, March 26, 2012

Saying Goodbye to the Canada Geese

I have a lot of catching up to do!

It is finally spring, though we really didn't have much of a winter. Not much snow at all which will cause some issues this summer unless it starts pouring. Lately we are seeing a lot of Canada Geese coming home. Here are some photographs from some of our more reccent trips to the beach.

Canada Geese Heading South in October of 2011:

Here are the Canada Geese Visiting Sandy Point on Their Way Back to Central Maine:

These 5 geese flew over to a pond behind us. We then proceeded to walk to the pond and watched them for a bit. They were all the way across the pond, but when they saw us, the began swimming swiftly towards us. I think my dog may have kept them at bay, though she was really oblivious of any other creatures. I had her at a down-stay as I watched and photographed the birds during their rest stop at this pond. This pond was located in Stockton Springs, Maine.

These geese were visiting a pond near Sandy Point State Park,
in Stockton Springs, Maine

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Eagle Sightings

I have not posted in a long time now. Rest assure, it was not because of lack of photographs. It was not because I have stopped travelling the woods and fields and beaches either. I have no good excuse! I am working on organizing all my nature photos by theme/subject. For example I will create a folder "Birds" and below open individual folders such as "Crow", "Sparrow" etc. Since I have a large huge number of photographs in my library this will be a very large task.

Anyway, instead of talking about these photos, let me now share some with you all!

Reccently I was able to photograph the Eagle that lives down on the river by Hollywood Slots. There is a pair. This series shows the male on some ice in the river. There are mergansers swimming near by.

Here he is flying to a different spot in the river. Thankfully he perched himself in a spot closer to me.

And he takes off...

"Nothing good to eat here."

This past summer was the first time I saw any of these Eagles in the area. This photo is the photo I used to identify the bird who was too far out for me to see without my camera.

You can see a sliver of Eagle here as it takes off from a tree.

This may be a young Eagle as it had some brown smudged on his white areas.

More reccently, I saw BOTH Eagles flying together in the wind over the river and over Brewer. They were very hard for me to track with my camera.

Last weekend I saw an Eagle land on the rocks out in Fox Pond off the Black Woods Rd. in Franklin nearest Cherryfield.

My father doesn't want to hear anymore when I saw or photographed an Eagle. Apparenly he is upset that he has not seen any. Saw one yesterday about 5 miles down the road from him!