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.
Filed Under Shorebirds, summer
Oystercatchers are on my list of favorite shorebirds. I find I really like the combination of black, white and orange/pink found in oystercatchers, skimmers and stilts. I find myself lingering at a site if any these birds are present. These oystercatchers were found recently on a sandy quiet-water beach and mud flat shortly after sunrise.
Filed Under Shorebirds, summer
Along the Mid-Atlantic coast Laughing Gulls are most often seen along boardwalks and beaches either begging for a handout or scouring the ground for left over morsels from people. Venturing into back bays and marshes you might just luck upon the more ‘natural’ habitat and food for these gulls. This flock was feasting on, I believe, horseshoe crab eggs. The size of the group was impressive. And not a single french fry!
Filed Under Wildflowers, summer
Wildflowers attract a wide variety of insects. Bees are frequent visitors and are seen commonly but the insect found in the second photo is one I don’t recall ever seeing before. Does anyone know what it is?
Jane suggested a certain moth, but in searching for her suggestion I found a picture of an Ailanthus Webworm Moth which I think is what I photographed. Thanks, Jane, for the tip.
