Winter's Bluebird ...

“The bluebird carries the sky on its back.”

               ~ Henry David Thoreau

                         ~ 1817-1862

A beautiful male Eastern Bluebird enjoys a rare warm February day along the Delaware and Lehigh Heritage Corridor (D&L Trail) at Lehigh Gap.

  
In the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge, also called Blue Mountain, the Lehigh Gap in Slatington, Pennsylvania, is a crossroads where the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s trails connect two historic trails – the Appalachian Trail and the D&L Trail. 

The Appalachian Trail, a foot path, follows the ridge on both sides of the Lehigh Gap, running 1,245 miles south to Georgia and 930 miles north to Maine. Running from Wilkes-Barre to Bristol, the D&L Trail passes through the Lehigh and Delaware rivers and their canals in Pennsylvania.

Bright-Eyed In Dixie ...

“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

                           ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                                 ~ 1858-1919

                 ~ Naturalist & Conservationist

  ~ 26^th President of the United States of America

                                  ~1901-1909

A double-crested cormorant keeps an eye on the lagoon amid the autumn leaves on a late October afternoon in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Looming At The Lowcountry Lagoon ...

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

                   ~ Aesop

                       ~ born 620 B.C., died 564 B.C.

A Juvenile Little Blue Heron looms over the lagoon as sunset approaches on a late October evening in the beautiful Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.