Aero Car Adventure, Niagara Falls, Canada

Whirlpool Aero Car Adventure between the borders of two countries, at Niagara Falls National Park. This side is Canada and that side is the US.

It was an awe-inspiring experience to travel through the aero car, in air over the fast and furious Niagara River gorge. At that point, as the river takes a turn, the dangerously roaring water creats giant whirlpools in that beautiful emerald green water. The aero car ride starts from the Canadian side, travels across the river gorge stops at a couple of points to let us enjoy the views and returns back to the Canadian side without touching or landing on the US side. This amazing natural wonder scenery is a total adventure in itself to experience.

Lotus - Macro click at botanical garden, Canada

Captured this macro photograph of a beautiful lotus flower at the botanical garden at Niagara Falls National Park, Canada

Sam Houston Statue at Houston, TX

An amazingly beautiful sunny day at Herman Park, Houston, Texas.
This is the Sam Houston Statue at the center of the park, captured creatively in front of the sun.

A woodpecker's funny expressions captured in Green Bay, WI

On a fresh cool morning I saw this cute Red-bellied woodpecker inside his cavity nest in a tree, while I was taking a walk on a nearby trail.

Actually, I was busy looking at different trees, clouds and the sky, the trail and many such other things, which I usually like to watch while walking. Suddenly, I heard an interesting voice - call of a bird. It sounded as if it is coming from somewhere very near to me, so I stopped to see from where it is coming. The voice also stopped, so I started walking again, the voice started again. This happened one more time. 

I got intrigued and I kind of guessed that it could be coming from the nearby tree (Meanwhile, I was able to locate this cute small cavity nest). I searched for sometime, but couldn't see the bird. Then I thought of tricking the bird, I went some steps away from the tree and kept looking at the cavity nest. And voila! There he was a cute red headed, reddish brown eyed bird and I felt like, "gotcha".  

                           

Then I took some photos of him and I was about to leave for my further walk, thats when the birdy might have felt okay with me being there and decided to make some more show by coming out. And then I recognized that the bird was a woodpecker called 'Red-bellied woodpecker'.

He came out on the branches, he was walking and turning on all sides of the tree trunk really fast. Almost all the woodpeckers I have seen do this typical thing - turning around the tree, as if they are playing hide and seek with us.

See this photo of him sitting on a branch, it was so difficult to capture him outside on branches as he was very active.