During the Arts of Birding camp session on Hog Island this week there was an opportunity to learn more about the life history of certain birds of prey including a golden eagle and this dainty Saw-Whet Owl. Photos Courtesy of Mary La Creta
Our Hog Island Osprey are famous! This beautiful painting of Rachel was created by David Schreier, who was the featured artist last year at the Project Puffin Visitor Center. This year David returned to Hog Island as a volunteer and was entranced watching Rachel and Steve’s nest. Admire Rachel year round by purchasing prints of
The profile of a razorbill. Perhaps understandable why this Darth Vadar of birds has been described as having “a rather forbidding appearance.” – G. M. Sutton in Todd Photo Courtesy of Charlie Sargent
“Bill stout, pale blue, tending to gray-blue; mandibles serrated, with black nasal grooves on each side of upper mandible; tip of upper mandible downcurved and slightly overhanging lower mandible. Bare skin of face and gular-stripe dark blue-gray, orbital ring of eye cobalt blue, and iris clear, pale blue-gray with a fine, dark outer ring.” (Source:
