The birds of Beaver Dam
An osprey stays alert for fishy prey in Beaver Dam Creek 
Osprey breakfast, flown in fresh . . .
. . . to a nest where a chick flexes its wings.
Canada geese take their growing goslings for family swim.
A swan, Wareham’s bird, needs no introduction.
A heron takes flight.
A green heron.
With a flock of great blue herons, the egret stands out.
A yellowlegs struts its stuff.
Attitude is everything: A red-winged blackbird sends a crow on its way.
Turn, tern! Fishing? Showing off? This bird does somersaults.
A goldfinch near the creek.
An osprey stays alert for fishy prey in Beaver Dam Creek
Osprey breakfast, flown in fresh . . .
. . . to a nest where a chick flexes its wings.
Canada geese take their growing goslings for family swim.
A swan, Wareham’s bird, needs no introduction.
A heron takes flight.
A green heron.
With a flock of great blue herons, the egret stands out.
A yellowlegs struts its stuff.
Attitude is everything: A red-winged blackbird sends a crow on its way.
Turn, tern! Fishing? Showing off? This bird does somersaults.
A goldfinch near the creek.
It’s an open-air aviary. A nursery for a gaggle of goslings -- and for one osprey chick and its constantly attentive parents. Low tide lets the yellow feet strut their yellow feet. The herons dip into the water for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Along the marsh and not far from the marsh, there’s always something feathered to catch a photographer’s interest. Beaver Dam Creek – the tidal stream that trickles under Route 6 and goes on to divide the Briarwood and Cromesett neighborshoods before emptying into the Weweantic River – provided a ready name for our corporation when my husband Patrick Lester and I launched Wareham Week more than 16 years ago.
With retirement and a focus on photography, Patrick has taken hundreds – make that thousands -- of images of the Birds of Beaver Dam. Here is a selection of some of this season’s best.
Anne Eisenmenger Publisher
