The Beaver in Candler Park

The video of the beaver in Candler Park was recorded by a remote sensor camera between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. The quality of the video is not great. The wildlife habitat the beaver has created is amazing. Over 50 species of birds have been identified in the habitat, including kingfishers and both blue and green herons.

Looking for Coyotes

A quest to photograph the elusive urban coyotes led me on an exploration of the creeks in our neighborhood. I wouldn’t really recommend doing this: the water is not clean; snakes, snapping turtles, and ticks stand ready to launch. There is poison ivy everywhere and complete strangers willingly tell tales about rabid raccoons and aggressive copperhead snakes. But the reward is in finding yourself surrounded by lovely lush vegetation, seemingly miles away from the big city while wading down the middle of a stream close to Ponce de Leon Avenue. My companions were the animals that make the creeks their home: the beavers repairing their dams on the Candler Park golf course,  a damselfly fluttering around  Fernbank Creek, and turtles sunning themselves in the creek on the Druid Hills golf course.

Coyotes are hard to spot and even harder to photograph. So far, most of my photos are of everything but coyotes that I encountered by following the tributaries of Peavine Creek in Candler Park and Druid Hills.


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Summer in New York

My dream for as long as I can remember has been to go to New York City and have time to walk around and take pictures.  Last summer, my dream came true when I was teaching at NYU.  I also took a photography class at the International Center for Photography, and I took every opportunity I had to just walk around with my camera. 
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Otter in the beaver dam in Candler Park

The beaver dam on the Candler Park golf course has become the home of not just beavers, but otters, muskrats, turtles, frogs and snakes and many birds including kingfishers and herons. The otter is just an occasional visitor but he showed up and clearly enjoyed an audience around Christmas time.

Snapping turtles & muskrat in the beaver dam

Spring Break in Sweden, 2011

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Owls

Here is Melvin standing between his beloved grandfather, Gustav Adolphson, who came from Gothenburg and his aunt Bertha, Anna and Gustav's only daughter.

My great-grandmother, Anna, emigrated from Sweden in 1888 and settled in Superior, Wisconsin. Here she is in her garden in the 1920s. Her grandson, Melvin, gave me this photograph.

Our new dog: Lad

Bluebirds

The bluebirds at the GPC native plant garden were busy feeding their young on Sunday morning, May 10. 

I saw a tree full of Ibises on the Georgia coast

attempts at drawing animals

American Woodcock

This woodcock must have been migrating north--in the middle of January--to the Great Lakes or shores of New England. Or was it just lost in the big city? It flew into a skyscraper in downtown Atlanta and I found it dead on the sidewalk.

The Wood duck flew into a skyscraper and broke his neck. He is the most colorful of American ducks and belongs along the woodland streams in the South, not on the pavement. 

Here is a sparrow who lost his life mid-flight downtown. 

I bury the birds I've found on the sidewalk in the back yard, but my friend Art says I should build an altar and burn them to let them re-enter their true element. 

I found this little warbler on the sidewalk downtown. Birds fly into skyscrapers and their short lives are cut even shorter. I wonder who they are and where they are going. 

Recent photos

November 5, 2008, the morning after Obama's victory, I went to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and took this picture of two men praying--paying tribute to Dr. King. 

Here is Desmond, who stayed with us over Christmas, posing with the scarf I finally finished.