The Four Musketeers ...

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

                     ~ Christina Rossetti

                                ~ 1830-1894

Four precious young barn swallows peek over their nest in a barn at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania on an August afternoon.

The barn swallow is a bird of open country that normally uses man-made structures to breed. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures.

Spring Supper ...

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

               ~ Aesop

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

A Small Green Heron fishes its supper out of the pond on a beautiful spring evening in early June at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The Candid Doe ...

“If you are not filled with overflowing love, compassion and goodwill for all creatures living wild in nature, you will never know true happiness.”

                      ~ Paul Oxton

              ~ founder & director

                of Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation

 My favorite white-tailed deer doe seems to say hello as she strikes a candid pose while seeing me walking toward her on a beautiful July evening in the park.

I’ve been blessed to photograph this doe and her fawns since 2012, and it’s a true joy to me personally and as a photographer.