by David Cohen There must be something going around. At the end of my last Forest Hills Connection post, “Backyard nature: Winter is for the birds,” I mentioned our first bird feeder and the birds it was drawing. Then Marlene Berlin posted her marvelous account of her new backyard bird feeder. Sense a trend? Count […]
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Backyard nature: Winter is for the birds
by David Cohen Thank you, Marlene Berlin! When I sent my photos from Mason Neck State Park in Lorton, Virginia, she suggested I look at Marjorie Rachlin’s marvelous 2013 and 2015 postings on wildlife in winter. That prompted me to look for winter wildlife in our neighborhood. Once again, it took a trip afar to […]
Backyard Nature: A bounty of butterflies
by David Cohen As we approach autumn, here’s a reminder of the bounty of summer: a half-dozen butterfly photos from June through September, and from three of my favorite parks. Forest Hills Connection has posted my photos from two of those parks, Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia, and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, right in the […]
Meet your neighbors: David Cohen’s wildlife photos on exhibit
David Cohen has graced the Forest Hills Connection with his photographs of area birds and wildlife. Two of his photographs (artists are limited to two works each) were chosen for the 46th Annual Labor Day Art Show at Glen Echo, which begins with a public reception at the Spanish Ballroom on Friday, September 2nd from […]
Backyard Nature: The woodpecker version of the Holy Grail
by David Cohen Mythic quests – for the Golden Fleece, the Lost Ark, the Holy Grail– pervade world culture. Here’s my neighborly, woodpecker version! A neighbor whose yard abuts Rock Creek Park along Broad Branch Road saw me toting my camera, monopod and telephoto lens. “I know what you’re looking for,” she said. I had […]
Backyard Nature: What a zoo!
by David Cohen In the midst of our chill gray rainy days, when the sky cleared once or twice to mere cloudiness, I went to the zoo. Usually I’m escorting children. This time I took an adult look. Here’s a little of what I found: David has a knack for capturing our wild neighbors with […]
Backyard nature: A wealth of woodpeckers
by David Cohen In February, Forest Hills Connection posted photos I took in Huntley Meadows Park, in Alexandria, Virginia. Among them was a red-headed woodpecker. Spring has brought the resonant, rhythmic rapping of woodpeckers to our own Forest Hills. Here are five varieties, all photographed in the neighborhood in the past two months. (All photos […]
Backyard Nature: Colorful neighbors
More stunning photos of the local wildlife from David Cohen: “I walked, carefully, along Broad Branch Road and the tributary to Rock Creek that runs alongside it. In the stretch between Davenport and Brandywine Streets, I found a wood duck pair in the creek, the impossibly Technicolor male and his more restrained mate.” If these […]
Backyard Nature: Photos of our wild neighbors
Photographer and Forest Hills neighbor David Cohen has a knack for finding wildlife. And sometimes they have a knack for finding him. Cohen recently shared photos from jaunts to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and Huntley Meadows Park. The following photos highlight the beauty we can find right outside our doors. Cohen writes: In Forest Hills, […]
Backyard nature: These tigers don’t roar
From David Cohen, more wonderful photos of the natural world just outside our doorsteps: I passed colorful fluttering on my daily walks with our dog that seemed to concentrate on a particular corner and bush. At last I brought my camera. From Erna Marcus, longtime Murch Elementary School teacher and neighborhood naturalist, I learned that […]