Great Meadows, MA

Marsh Wren building its nestCanon 7D,70-200mm F2.8Exposure Triad:  f5.6, 1/800sec, ISO 400 

The rains continue, week after week.  This is the strangest spring that I can remember.  A short break from the rains - we headed out to Great Meadows.  The green marsh grasses are now reaching the tops of the cattails so in a few days the marsh wren will be a difficult subject to photograph here.  The shot above is one of a marsh wren just having plucked at the cattail for some nesting material.

Here is another wren straddling cattails calling.  The partial back lighting accentuated the beak.

Marsh Wren CallingCanon 7D 500mm f4Exposure Triad: f5.6, 1/500 sec, ISO 200