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...
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...
Segueing nicely from space hardware back to birds, here’s a Great Blue Heron that was fishing near Titan III Road in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
Let’s leave space hardware for a while. Here’s a shot I grabbed while out for a walk shortly after sunrise on Monday morning. There were a couple...
A Bald Eagle perched on an iceberg which was floating in front of the face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park on September...
We saw many bald eagles in Alaska last September but most were some distance away and not easy to get a good, close image of. During our visit to the Alaska...
Back to Alaska today with this image of a Glaucous-Winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) seen in Sitka at the start of our September visit to the state. The skies...
The last bald eagle image I posted was of a bird in captivity but now that we’re out on the water, here’s one seen in the wild a couple of days...
Our first stop yesterday morning was the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka. The center rescues and rehabilitates injured birds from the local area and farther...
Staying with bird pictures today, here’s another image from a very productive morning at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This handsome brown...
Here’s another of the many Great Blue Herons that I found while walking the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This one seems to be a juvenile...
An adult great blue heron seen on the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama on November 21st, 2022.
Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t have any turkey-related pictures to post today but I’ll finish this short series of bird images with another pelican....
I’m staying with the bird pictures today. Here’s another of the Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) from Fort Morgan beach in Alabama. This...
One of the things I enjoy about travel is that the wildlife that is commonplace at your destination is often novel and exciting to visitors. Here’s...
I headed off this morning to take pictures in Fort Morgan and, after doing that, took a walk over to the beach where I noticed a large group of pelicans...
We’re on a road trip this week and today’s stop is Orange Beach, Alabama. Despite the cold, I took a wander along the beach and pointed a camera...
A white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica) seen from one of the bird blinds at Pedernales Falls State Park near Austin, Texas on October 25th, 2021.
