All good things come to an end, and so with my gig writing posts about the Bald Eagle family of Duke Farms for the "Behind the Walls" blog.

Found quite a few of these at High Mountain last week. What are they?

On Monday I posted this photo from Bear Mountain State Park  last month and asked who it was.

Congrats to Tom Mitchell and Janet Terchek for correctly IDing this Red Eft.

A week earlier, I asked what was going on in the photo above. The answer: Eight Mallard ducklings tare staying warm and cuddling against a feather duster at the Franklin Lakes Animal Hospital. They had been rescued from a storm drain and were awaiting transport (by me) to The Raptor Trust.

Congrats to Marianne H. and Ginny C. for IDing the situation correctly, and a nod to Mike L. for his bad pun.

I've found the Franklin Clove is a great spot to see dragonflies in summer.

Now if I could only ID them. :- )

(I think the third one is a juvenile Common Whitetail.)

I took these two photos a couple of minutes apart. Sun was shining in the first -- that's the only difference. 

Read more about hummingbird feathers here, from David Sibley. I think I see a "Bird Watcher" column in the works.