Grand Island, New York Photo Album
July - December 2009

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"Young Deer" - February 2010

Gary McDannell Photo - Click for larger view
   Gary wrote, "I took photo of a young deer on the morning of Friday, February 5, 2010. There was a second one, but he was camera shy. They were crossing Ferry Road Between the Parkway and Baseline. The deer appeared to be very young, and I would guess that it was not one year old as yet..."
Posted October 11, 2010

"Red Bellied Woodpecker" - 2009

Diane Ippolito Photo - Click for larger view
   This picture of a red bellied woodpecker was taken on December 28, 2009
by Diane Ippolito in her backyard on Edgewater Avenue.
Posted December 30, 2009

"Taking A Break" - 2009

Erika French Photo - Click for larger view
   Erika French took this picture from her First Street home where this pair of
deer were spotted resting in the woods on Thanksgiving Day 2009.
Posted December 23, 2009

"November Sunrise" - 2009

Jeff Cooke Photo - Click for larger view
   Jeff Cooke of North Colony Road captured this beautiful November sunrise from his deck earlier this month.
Posted November 23, 2009

"Niagara In November" - 2009

Emily Dahlstrom Photo - Click for larger view
   Emily Dahlstrom took this photo from the 4800 block of East River Road,
looking across the Niagara River on a calm Saturday, November 14th.
Posted November 19, 2009

"Hawk" - October 2009

Harry Carter Photos - Click for larger view
   Harry Carter photographed this Hawk in his Stony Point Road yard on October 17, 2009.
Posted October 22, 2009

"Niagara Falls - WOW!" - September 2009

Gary McDannell Photo - Click for larger view
   Gary wrote, "I took this photo of the American Falls on September 10, 2009.
This photo really has a WOW factor to it, and with the high mp value, it appears to be a 3-D picture."
Posted September 17, 2009

"American White Water Lily" - September 2009

Gary McDannell Photo - Click for larger view
   Gary wrote, "This is an American white water lily (Nymphaea odorata) that I took on Friday,
September 11, 2009 at the East River Marina Restoration Project. An interesting fact about
this lily is that it only flowers from early morning until noon. It really is a beautiful flower."
Posted September 17, 2009

"Great Catch!" - August 2009

Gary Yaeger Photos - Click for larger view
   Gary is shown with this carp he caught. The fish weighed in at 22 pounds but Gary is keeping
the fishing hole a secret. The snapping turtle native to this area was interested in the bait
on Gary's fishing line. The photos were taken on August 27, 2009.
Posted September 3, 2009

"Bedell Road Fox" - August 2009

Doug Lowe Photo - Click for larger view
   Doug Lowe, who photographed this fox in the early afternoon of August 12, 2009, wrote, "We have been
watching this fox and a second one for months now in our backyard on Bedell."
Posted August 20, 2009

"West River Fox" - August 2009

Gary McDannell Photo - Click for larger view
    Gary McDannell wrote, "Early yesterday morning (Aug. 17, 2009) I was out bird watching, and I decided
to head down West River Parkway to the Eagle Observation Station. I was only on West River about one minute
when I encountered two young red foxes. One of them ran off into the brush when he saw me, but the other
one stayed around long enough to get a couple of pictures of her."
Posted August 20, 2009

"Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron" - August 2009

Kim Ludwig Photo - Click for larger view
   Kim Ludwig took this photo of a juvenile black crowned night heron, while on a sunset boat cruise around Motor Boat Island with her husband on Tuesday evening, August 11, 2009. "I loved his little green legs! He sat like a statue pretending that he didn't see me!" Kim said.
Posted August 13, 2009

"Snail In Million Belle Flower" - August 2009

Marilyn Lewis Photo - Click for larger view
   Marilyn Lewis wrote that, "my daughter, Jodi, and I were sitting on the front porch when we noticed a single million belle flower with a snail inside....makes an interesting picture as the flower is quite small." The "million belles" is an annual hanging basket flower purchased at the American Legion Sale this past spring. The photo, taken around August 1, 2009 from the West River Road porch, shows the flower laying on the terry cloth robe Jodi was wearing at the time.
Posted August 13, 2009

"Storm Waters" - August 2009

Emily Dahlstrom Photos - Click for larger view
   Emily Dahlstrom took these photos at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 10, 2009 from her front yard looking out over the East River. High winds and a hard driving rain hit the Island about 7 p.m. Sunday when a party tent was ripped down and several of the metal poles on the Dahlstrom property were bent. This was nothing compared to the monster floods in and around Silver Creek and Gowanda, NY. "There was a brown stripe of water running down the Niagara on the opposite shore. It was a muddy mix of water from the storm the previous day," Emily said.
Posted August 13, 2009

"Bugs" - August 2009

Julie Greco Photos - Click for larger view
   Julie Greco took these photos on August 6, 2009 in her yard on West River Road, and her husband, Frank, wrote the following. "Several days ago I noticed something I never saw before. Hundreds of an unknown insect on our White Pine tree in roughly 6-inch circles. Last night on the Animal channel I saw something similar on "Wild Russia" and the narrator said the insects come to mate and usually are all dead in up to 7 days. Today I noticed that my original 8 circles of insects were down to 2 left. They all left about 4 days after first appearing. So I am hoping that they were there to mate only and not to suck the sap and kill the tree."
Posted August 13, 2009

"Barn Swallows" - August 2009

Frank F. Greco Photo - Click for larger view
   Frank writes, "Over the last several years we on the West River have been losing our
Purple Martins as the population of Sand Flies decreased. This year I haven't even seen one
Purple Martin. Gradually they have been replaced by Barn Swallows, but as before the Barn Swallows'
newborns line up behind my house in the same place as the Purple Martin did and wait to fatten
up so they can fly to South America for the winter in a couple of weeks."
Posted August 6, 2009

"Hummingbird" - July 2009

Emily Dahlstrom Photo - Click for larger view
   Diane M. Ippolito photographed this Hummingbird at her backyard
feeder on Edgewater Avenue on Friday morning, July 10, 2008.
Posted July 16, 2009

"East River Sunrise" - July 2009

Emily Dahlstrom Photo - Click for larger view
   This Emily Dahlstrom photo was taken Friday morning, July 10, 2008
near her home on East River Road.
Posted July 16, 2009

"Misty Morning Deer" - June 2009

Karen Rose Photos - Click for larger view
   Karen Rose photographed the deer on the morning of July 6, 2009 in her backyard on Gregory Place.

Posted July 9, 2009

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