I took these two tonight. Knowing that several of the marsh ponds in the area have dried up due to the lack of rain, I went looking for birds in tidally flooded wetlands. The group of egrets in the bottom photo were fishing a very small water hole with fish congregated in the middle where it was a little deeper. Bad for the fish, lucky for the egrets.
I shot these egrets two Saturdays ago. Since that time the open water areas in the marshes in eastern Sussex County, DE have just about dried out. Rain, the remnant of what was Hurrricane Fay, is approaching our area tonight but it is quickly loosing steam. The dry holes that the egrets and herons were in are now barren. I’ll have to find new locations and subjects.
I have been loafing recently and not adding new photographs to this photoblog, but I will try to do better. Here is a Great Blue Heron I found loafing (and occasionally fishing) early last Saturday morning.
Filed Under Wildflowers, summer
Dawn patrols last week in Cape Hatteras National Seashore found local flora and fauna waking up to the seashore sunrise. The Hatteras Lighthouse sits behind Swamp Rose-Mallow in the top photgraph while Morning Glories (I think, corrections welcome) are seen in the bottom two.
I was on vacation this past week in Buxton, NC; a vacation from work but not from photography. I took a lot of photographs of family and friends doing a variety of sports, but this photoblog sticks to nature as the subject. I did get a few photos last week of the natural beauty of the Outer Banks and I will post a few over the next few days now that I am home.
This is Pamlico Sound at sunset last night. The sound is thick with submerged vegetation, scallops, oysters, a large variety of small finfish and some slow moving skates.
Filed Under Shorebirds, summer
As a bookend to the sunset photograph I posted on August 1 here is a recent sunrise with a cooperative egret.
Just a nice sunset from a couple of weeks ago that I am finally getting around to posting. You just have to love summer sunsets.
