25 Sunday Aug 2024
Posted in EBF Refuge, Photography
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black skimmer, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Forster's Tern, great blue heron, mute swan, postaday, red-winged blackbird, white campion, white ibis
The following photos are from the same trip I took last Wednesday to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge near Galloway, NJ.
09 Sunday Jun 2024
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
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great blue heron, postaday, red-winged blackbird, rock dove, sow thistle, white campion, white ibis
25 Saturday May 2024
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
This past Tuesday, after a long series of rainy days, I finally went to the rookery right next to the Welcome Center in Ocean City, NJ. There were hundreds of egrets, ibises, night herons, and smaller birds. Within a few minutes, I saw a Great Egret standing and preening itself over four eggs!
A few minutes later it was back down and incubating again. The incubation lasts from 23 to 27 days.
Meanwhile, a White Ibis was much further along, with at least three hatchlings visible next to it.
There was a small pond filled with rain water and various birds and ducks were there drinking or swimming around.
Meanwhile some birds were flying over the bay to look for food for their growing and hungry families.
02 Sunday Jul 2023
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
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crownvetch, egret, glossy ibis, great egret, postaday, snowy egret, white ibis, yellow-crowned night heron
Canadian smoke is back with us, not as bad as two weeks ago but still cause for warnings about minimizing outdoor activities. So the following images are from photos I took two weeks ago at the rookery next to the Ocean City Welcome Center.
24 Saturday Jun 2023
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
Last week I went to the rookery next to Ocean City Welcome Center to visit this year’s birds. The Canadian smoke had all but disappeared, the sky was only a pale baby blue, but there was plenty of light for photography. Following are some shots of the rookery current inhabitants.
Suddenly, a flash of red landed in the middle of the rookery. It turned out to be a male Northern Cardinal in all of its red splendor.
22 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
21 Sunday Aug 2022
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
In the preceding post, a juvenile White Ibis was pestering its parent with its demands for food.
At another nest a juvenile launched itself into the air.
18 Thursday Aug 2022
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
Today I went to the rookery at Ocean City Welcome Center. Dispersed among the trees were hundreds of egrets, ibises, night herons, and other shore birds. It was a photographer’s paradise as one could look in almost any direction and click away.
Finally, the parent was able to fly away to look for more food. White Ibises eat insects and crustaceans that they find in the mud.
30 Thursday Jun 2022
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
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bluejay, Eastern Blue Bird, Eastern Bluebird, Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird, great egret, postaday, white ibis, yellow-crowned night heron
This post is my response to Tina’s challenge at Lens-Artists Challenge #205 – The Eyes Have it. I almost never photograph humans, so my entries will consist of pictures of birds that I encounter in a rookery, a wildlife refuge, or in our backyard.
14 Saturday May 2022
Posted in EBF Refuge, Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
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bald eagle, Black-crowned Night Heron, canada goose, Forster's Tern, great egret, postaday, purple martin, snowy egret, white ibis, yellow-crowned night heron
I have been saving photos of birds over the past several weeks, waiting for an opportunity to post them. Here are most of them, in no particular order.
28 Tuesday Dec 2021
Posted in Photography
2021 was the year of the 17-year Brood X cicadas. Tens of thousands of their shells littered our yard and their singing during the day was incessant, lasting from early morning well into sunset.
Some of my most satisfying photo captures are the following of a superb flyer, a White Ibis near its rookery in Ocean City, NJ.
11 Sunday Jul 2021
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27 Sunday Jun 2021
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
The Ocean City Welcome Center rookery has many White Ibises this year. They make perfect subjects for birds in flight photography.
20 Sunday Jun 2021
Posted in Ocean City Welcome Center, Photography
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glossy ibis, great egret, little blue heron, Ocean City Welcome Center, photography, postaday, rookery, white ibis
With bright sunshine, white clouds on blue sky, bearable temperatures, and a cool breeze from time to time, it was a perfect day for photography. There were already about a dozen photographers with their massive long lenses pointed at various points of the rookery.
Except for the sleepy night herons, the birds were very active, flying in and out of the trees every minute or so. I ended up taking many more pictures of birds in flight than I had planned.
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