We spotted this Gentoo penguin struggling to get onto a grounded iceberg in a bay at Petermann Island, Antarctica during a zodiac cruise on December 31st,...
Back on December 31st, we were delighted to be able to watch a couple of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) spend about an hour feeding all around...
Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are found along the entire Antarctic coast but not on any of the sub-Antarctic islands so we only started seeing...
We visited Elephant Island yesterday for a zodiac cruise around the bay at Point Wild, the location of the final rescue of Shackleton’s team back...
I just realised that I have so far failed to post an image of the cutest inhabitants of South Georgia so today’s picture aims to correct that. We visited...
We cruised past the world’s largest iceberg, A-23a, this morning and picked up a significant following of local seabirds including this Antarctic...
I was delighted to find that there are Antarctic Terns (Sterna vittata georgiae) nesting at Godthul on South Georgia where we spent yesterday afternoon....
This morning’s shore excursion was absolutely amazing. We got up at 4am to shuttle across to the beach at St. Andrew’s Bay on South Georgia,...
The first bird colony we visited on New Island (on December 19th) was home to a large number of Imperial Cormorants (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis) including...
A Gentoo penguin with two chicks in a colony on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024. The landscape of New Island reminded me very...
Today was our first penguin day! We spent it visiting a couple of different bird colonies on New Island, one of the 704 islands comprising the Falkland...
Apparently Oceanwide Expeditions have installed StarLink on their boats and, as a result, are now offering limited, free internet to guests for the duration...
We made it to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina today and spent a few hours just wandering around the town and seafront getting a feel for the place....
I’ll end this short Black Skimmer series with a shot of a flock of the birds flying along the shoreline of Cocoa Beach, Florida shortly after sunrise...
In the air, Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) are amazingly elegant and dexterous flyers. On the beach, however, they look rather comical. Here are a couple...
A flock of Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) skims the surface of the waters off Cocoa Beach, Florida early in the morning on March 25th, 2024.
As usual when I’m up in New Mexico, I took a camera along on my evening walk yesterday and grabbed a few local scenes. High desert flora is fascinating...
Of the gull-like birds I watched on Cocoa Beach last week, the Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) were probably my favourite. They are so elegant and graceful...
Staying with the theme of birds in flight, here’s another image I took while stalking the Black Skimmers on Cocoa Beach last week. This was taken...
While waiting for last week’s aborted Delta IV Heavy launch, I pointed a camera at various birds that were flying around Cape Canaveral Space Force...
