Tag Archives: Fall

Birds, Landscape, Marsh, Spoonbill, Swamp, What I Saw, Wildlife

Not Stumps ?

November 15, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

Things just happen and at times I can blunder along into them. This was one of those times.

Not waiting for enough light I walked out on a dike path, both sides thick with tall grass and reeds. Taller than me I try not to lean too far into them to view the other side. Might be a nasty surprise, at least in my mind.

I knew there was activity on my left since I could hear splashes, see silhouettes in the dark. I stopped by an opening and waited.

A short time later my ‘stumps’ revealed themselves.

Who knew!

My stumps were actually a large number of Roseate Spoonbill standing, waiting for some light too.

Soon the Spoonbill were highlighted with the rising sun, I had a ‘group photo’ in front of me.

You never know what you are going to find out there.

ACE Basin, South Carolina.

Birds, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Swamp, Wildlife

Tricolored Heron In A Marsh Tree

November 10, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

Found on the back end of a dike trail that seems to have become a favorite spot this fall.

I think the Tricolors are more inclined to perch up high than the bigger Herons.

One of those facing the sun shots that I squeeze out (and maybe shouldn’t).

Birds, Heron, Marsh, Swamp, What I Saw, Wildlife

Just Waiting Around

November 8, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 2 Comments

I have to wonder, how many do I never notice?

Great Blue Heron.

Birds, Landscape, Marsh, Pelican, Shore Bird, Swamp, This and That, What I Saw, Wildlife

Peaceful Marsh Scene, Pelicans

November 7, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

No drama here. A few White Pelican swimming along a marsh.

Birds, Landscape, Marsh, Pelican, Shore Bird, Swamp, This and That, Wildlife

Classic Pelican Shot

November 7, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

A White Pelican giving me the opportunity to actually take some time and set the camera for a bright sun shot.

A nice bright sunny day is not always your friend when shooting on water.

Birds, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Swamp, This and That, What I Saw, Wildlife

Tall Grass, Heron

November 6, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

Tricolored Heron at the edge of a large swath of marsh grass.

This makes a nice contrasting shot in the fall. Even better since this is a young Tricolored with some of the rusty brown of a juvenile.

Summer here even the tall birds are invisible in the grass.

Birds, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Swamp, This and That, What I Saw, Wildlife

The Gate Keeper, Heron

November 4, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography Leave a comment

I’ve called this Great Blue the Gate Keeper.

He makes his home near two marshes, on a strip of land with pine stands and a trunk that controls water flow along small canals. (click to view)

A few people come back here to fish and catch crabs. I think he has figured out how to ‘borrow’ their bait. He is always around somewhere.

Birds, Egret, Heron, Landscape, Marsh, Pelican, Shore Bird, Spoonbill, Stork, Swamp, This and That, What I Saw, Wildlife

Split Second Of Chaos

November 4, 2020 Ted Jennings - TPJ Photography 4 Comments

Photographs best viewed large.

After you go way out there, find them, you really don’t want them to leave.

But if they must…

Please give me a flash of chaos and drama.

There are few opportunities to get shots like these. When you do get the chance it’s a good assumption your settings would be for a closeup, not explosion.

This day not only did I catch the mass exit, they flew in a circle coming right back to the area.

Note; the image above even has a small Dowitcher in the right corner.

ACE Basin, South Carolina.