Fine-feathered friends

Anyone who reads Greenwich Citizen probably has surmised that staff writer Anne W. Semmes is a bird lover. There was, for instance, her Reporter's Notebook of about a year ago when she talked about her pet parakeet. Then, just a week or so ago, there was her story about the Brown Pelican that made an unscheduled -- and very unexpected -- visit to Greenwich Point. And in between those stories were her accounts of hawk watches and bird counts and pets that had flown the coop -- literally. What you may not know, however, is that her daughter, Melissa Groo, shares that passion.

Call them birds of a feather.

Featured here are photographs that Groo, a former Greenwich resident, took earlier this year on the west coast of Florida, where she was vacationing. The bird photographs, as well as an essay on photographing birds, is featured this month on the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology website.

You may visit it at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/page.aspx?pid=2319