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Least Sandpiper
May 18, 2023 - Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the sandpipers, measuring about 5.5 inches and weighing about 1 oz. They spend the...
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Spring renewal
May 11, 2023 - Spring is time for renewal and growth. Birds are migrating and beginning to nest, mammals are giving birth, many species...
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Showy Snowy Egrets
April 11, 2023 - I t's spring and the Snowy Egrets are brilliant. Courtship and securing a good nest site is on their mind. They're very...
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Reddish Egret
March 12, 2023 - A great friend, Rich Paul, was an authority on Reddish Egrets. As manager of the National Audubon Society’s Florida Coas...
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Pintails
March 04, 2023 - There is something about pintails in flight. They're fast and sleek, appear more streamlined than most ducks, and seem t...
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“Blue” Geese
February 09, 2023 - In a large gathering of Snow Geese, you’ll usually see dark-bodied geese. They’re also Snow Geese, just the dark phase o...
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Snow Geese
March 18, 2019 - On a cold, clear February morning on the eastern shore of Maryland, I headed out at first light to Blackwater National W...
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Trembling with delight
June 12, 2018 - My hands were almost trembling with delight as I held for the first time a Semipalmated Sandpiper. Seconds earlier I car...
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My time with Canvasbacks
November 28, 2017 - For me, Canvasbacks have always been elusive. They are not common in southern North Carolina. To see them, I usually had...
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A morning with Shorebirds
September 21, 2017 - They are not the most colorful and showy of the bird world. They are not the largest or the most iconic species, either.
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Never enough Great Egrets
August 22, 2017 - I have lots of Great Egret photos and I have never taken the time to count how many are in my files. I have them from wi...
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Those skimmers
June 01, 2017 - The aerial confrontations of Black Skimmers begin on the ground for a reason known only to the skimmers. Maybe over terr...
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Sanderling
May 22, 2017 - I was lying flat on the sand with my camera focused intently on this sanderling scurrying on the wet sand. It followed t...
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Beach Birds of Spring
May 13, 2017 - Spring is a great time for shorebirds and seabirds. Migration is in full swing for shorebirds and seabirds, like Least T...
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A sure sign of Spring
March 26, 2017 - When Great Egrets start nesting it is a sure sign that winter is loosening its grip and spring is going to burst forth....
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A Morning with Tundra Swans
January 16, 2017 - I stopped off at Pungo Lake recently to see the great Tundra Swans, Snow Geese and other waterfowl that winter in the Pu...
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Last light
December 04, 2016 - Migration is over now, for the most part. Birds are where they are going to be for the winter. There may be some regiona...
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Great Egrets
September 09, 2016 - The tide is nearly low in the little tidal pond and the water depth is low enough for Great Egrets to wade across the mi...
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Skimmers
July 27, 2016 - Ornithologists Drs. Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld wrote of Black Skimmers in their landmark book -- The Black Skimm...
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Carolina Pelicans
July 13, 2016 - In 1929 a Federal Conservation Agent named William L. Birsch traveled to a small island called Royal Shoal in Pamlico So...
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Hatching time for American Oystercatchers
June 11, 2016 - On a sandy spit on one of my favorite beaches there is a wonderful nesting area for shorebirds, terns and Black Skimmers...
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Wrightsville Terns
May 23, 2016 - Every morning when I have a an hour or so of free time before I head off to work, I travel to the south end of Wrightsvi...
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Every Banded Bird has a Story
May 02, 2016 - I went to a local, uninhabitedl beach this weekend to photograph Red Knots and anything else that happened to present an...
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The squeaky voices of terns
April 25, 2016 - I recently took a boat ride to a local inlet that I visit as often as I can. The inlet one of the few natural inlets lef...
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With Blind Faith
April 16, 2016 - I had the pleasure of attending the 13th annual Power of Flight meeting this week, held in St. Simons Island, GA. The me...
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Learning more about Piping Plovers
April 05, 2016 - On a remote cay of sand and rock off the northern end of Andros, The Bahamas, in the newly established Joulter Cays Nati...
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Lake Mattamuskeet
March 27, 2016 - Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern North Carolina is a wonderful place for birds and photographe...
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Great Egrets on the Cape Fear
March 13, 2016 - Great Egrets gather by the hundreds on a small island in the lower Cape Fear River. They’ve returned in March as they ha...
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