Category Archives: Birds

Birds, Black Skimmer, Marsh, Shore Bird, Swamp, Wildlife

Skimmers

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A few shots taken as Black Skimmers worked a marsh pool near me.

These photographs were at the far end of the shallows. I had the idea of getting the Skimmers as they did their wide turns to make another pass over the surface.

The last two shots I finally was getting the flight directions right. This bird also had a small fish.

I discovered my best option was to keep a little more distance between me and the waters edge. These birds are much too fast.

Shooting wider, which requires more space, is the only way to keep up with them. I think a 100-400 would have been a better lens choice too. A bigger lens is like swinging around a couch 🤣🤣 LOL. You can’t do it for very long (if at all).

Birds, Marsh, Pelican, Swamp, Wildlife

Can’t Imagine What He Caught, Pelican

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White Pelicans feed by scooping up anything nearby, water, mud, and ‘stuff’. They prefer fish, but I don’t think they are all that picky.

Problem is… figuring out what to keep.

I think they just ‘swish’ it around a bit to find out.

White Pelicans on the edge of a marsh.

Alligator, Birds, Egret, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Wide Photographs, Wildlife

Marsh, May 2022

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As wide an image as I shoot. About 18mm. Anything more I would have distortions. A single Alligator can be found in the water. Egrets and a Heron on the dead tree. All small at this width. But they are just supporting players in the overall big marsh.

Birds, Egret, Marsh, Shore Bird, Swamp, Wildlife

Gathering For A Quick Meal

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An early day shot, but certainly not sunrise.

I find four different species in this group.

The easy one is the Snowy Egrets, look at the attitude. There are also Black-necked Stilts, Yellowlegs, and a Willett.

Above, I added the last shot after the article was finished…

Looking close you will find a Glossy Ibis. Hint; his head is only visible and underneath a Snowy LOL.

Birds, Marsh, Shore Bird, Swamp, Wildlife

Wood Stork Fishing

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This was one of several Storks fishing in a cut near the dry marshes. Cuts are like streams running between wetlands, so there was still water, and plenty of fish.

Smaller wading birds worked the edges like the Stilt above.

This cut ran along a dike giving me dry trail to walk past all the action without upsetting any of the birds (or Alligators).

Birds, Egret, Landscape, Marsh, Swamp, Wildlife

Passing Snowy Egret

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Taken in an old rice field, Donnelley wildlife area.

This spot has always been a marsh, though some parts were plantation rice fields. Later it was a large private reserve for a wealthy northern industrialist, and finally part of the Lowcountry state wildlife management areas.