Tag: Spring

Nine-Years Ago (28-May-2012) — New Jersey

Springtime Nature in New Jersey

Morning walkabout at Sourland Mountain Preserve. Canada Goose, Tufted Titmouse, American Robin, Red-winged Blackbird. My eBird Checklist.


Morning walkabout at Sourland Mountain Preserve. Images taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR lens and Nikon 1 V1 camera and 10-100 mm VR lens. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Fourteen-Years Ago (28-May-2007) — Colorado

Springtime Nature in Colorado

Boulder Residence Inn. Northern Flicker My eBird Checklist.


Northern Flicker. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR lens. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Longs Peak Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park. American Three-toed Woodpecker, Canada Jay, Mountain Chickadee, Yellow-rumped Warbler. My eBird Checklist.


Longs Peak Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR lens (some with a 1.4, 1.7, or 2.0x teleconverter). Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Lily Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park. Mallard, Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle. My eBird Checklist.


Lily Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park. Image taken with a Nikon D2xs camera and 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR lens (some with a 1.4, 1.7, or 2.0x teleconverter). Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Thursday (27-May-2021) — New Jersey

Springtime Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

It’s been a while. I’m over a month behind on posts. Spring has kept me busy in the yard. Although I have been taking pictures everyday, I end each day tired and sore from the yardwork and haven’t found the energy to review and post the images. Finally, it rained and I had time to rest and start catching up. New spring flowers, Cicadas, strawberries, birds, gardens, grow towers, hydroponic farms, and the yardwork.

Visitors backyard and the patio birdfeeder: House Finch. Not many birds visiting during the emergence of the Cicadas.


Daily backyard visitors. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

The water level in the back pond is getting low, but still enough to support Kermit the Bull Frog and all of his cousins.

Kermit the Bull Frog. (David J Mathre)
Kermit the bull frog in the back pond. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens. (David J Mathre)

Spring flowers blooming: White Allium, Daisy, Yellow Star Thistle (invasive weed), Five-Spot, Crimson Clover, Baby Snapdragon (Toadflax), Baby Blue, Love-in-a-mist, Poppies (Oriental, Red, California), and Rhododendron.

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Spring Flowers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.


Love-in-a-mist Flowers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.


Poppy Flowers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.


Rhododendron Flowers (some with Bumble Bees). Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

I harvested the first batch of Strawberries from the Grow Towers. These are from the strawberry plants that the Doe didn’t eat last winter. Fortunately, the Cat Birds haven’t found the Strawberries this year. If/when they do, I will need to put a net up around the Grow Towers.


Fresh spring Strawberries from the Grow Towers. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Daily Electric Energy Used (58.6 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (84.6 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Sunny. A surplus of 26.0 kWh.

One-Year Ago (27-May-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey

Daily Visitors: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Blue Jay, House Finch, Chipping Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, Northern Cardinal. A Brown-headed Cowbird fledgling departed the Eastern Phoebe nest. My eBird Checklist. My eBird Checklist.


Daily Birdfeeder Visitors. Images taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.


Brown-headed Cowbird fledgling from an Eastern Phoebe nest. Image taken with a Fuji X-H1 camera and 200 mm f/2 lens and 1.4x teleconverter. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.