After diving for food, a Canvasback Duck is about to surface.

During the slow periods of trail adventures, birding, etc., I will start to post my favorite photos eventually replacing the blog page My Favorite Photos and moving it to the archive pages.

In the year 2002, my interest in photography started to gain momentum. This was one of the first photos I took with a Nikon 5700.

The River Project is quickly coming to an end. I was fortunate to go to the last Artists Walk on March 6th. The last display date will be March 13th.

The Artists Walk is a guided walk with some of the artists who discuss the creative process of each sculpture. This day, the attending artists were: Eric Lintala, Richard Creighton, Stacy Latt Savage and Nancy Train Smith.  I was pleasantly surprised to see a fairly large group of people for this event.

The group stopped at each sculpture and each artist gave an explanation of their sculpture. Two artist were not present so another artist spoke in their place.

As each artist spoke, I became intrigued with the intent of each artist with their sculpture. Such as, choice of site, color, materials used and the specific type of sculpture chosen. On one occasion,  as Stacy Latt Savage spoke of her art work, I was so focus on her explanation, I forgot I had a camera to take some photos! I should have brought my voice recorder for adequate notes, as I could do no justice to the explanations of each art piece.

It was a pleasure to meet the artists, members of the Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust (DNRT) and the anticipation to photograph each month what the seasons brought to the sculptures. I am glad they did this.

A common swift has taken the title as the fasted bird recorded in level flight.

The swift (Apus apus) can power itself to a speed of 111.6km/h (69.3mph) flying horizontally and even upwards.

Other birds, such as peregrine falcons, fly faster while diving in a stoop, but the swift is the fastest accurately recorded flying under its own power. Read more.