Red Maple Leaves in Autumn

Monday, November 4, 2019,

I took a drive out to Morton Refuge last week. I imagine that most folks go there for the birds and the pure magic of feeding them by hand. I certainly do. It’s also a great place for avian photo ops. I just checked and this is my seventy-sixth post about Morton. Only Avalon Preserve and Frank Melville Park have garnered more posts that this wonderful refuge. Again, I go there mostly for the birds, but on this trip I took more photographs of the changing leaves than anything else. There were just so many beautiful leaves. Here on Long Island, we get many different colors on our trees. I think the reds are my favorites. JK

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Leaves in a Brook

Wednesday, November 8, 2017,

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These are two different crops of the same photo. I kinda like both of them. Click on each pic for a larger view. I took this shot from a small footbridge that crosses over a slow moving brook at Morton Wildlife Refuge. I’ve made several trips to Morton in the past two weeks in the hope of getting some photos of Turkeys. So far, I’ve struck out on the Turkeys, (unless you count scat), but there have been plenty of other photo ops for me. I’ve seen plenty of birds, a fox, great fall foliage, and yesterday I had a bit of an adventure concerning a Garter Snake. I haven’t gotten my Turkey, but I haven’t been bored, either. JK

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