The Night Herons have been kind this year…
Black-crowned, Hunkered Down
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Poking Around – Little Critters
I believe these were all taken with my OM 100-400 II, probably not the best lens for this. I guess it works since these came out pretty good.
Ellen has a 90mm macro lens, suddenly I’m jealous.
Sometimes you poke around and find all kinds of things, others you come up with zero. I think I need to be more aware of carrying a midsize lens.
Little Blue Heron, Nesting Time
The Little Blues are getting active, a few disagreements, and a few…other things. In Port Royal they nest low in a marsh area that’s close to some swamp.
Sounds good except they brush is very low. Not good in an active swamp.
The Little Blues have reached their mating colors. They are still dark, but now blues, and even magenta is brilliant and vivid.
Almost lost this photograph. Working a little in ON1 and the new export methods made me save the jpg in unexpected places LOL.
Huguenot Church / French Quarter
We were walking through town heading to the Gibbs Museum and I noticed the doors were open here for visitors. An open church door is like a gigantic hook…grabs my camera every time.
The first wooden church here was in 1645, this building was built in 1845. It was rebuilt once more, the French Quarter in Charleston was targeted by the Federal gunboats during our US Civil War.
Lady Wood Stork
Amazing to be able to get these shots. They were rare in the US, and about to be gone.
She was nesting with a large number of other storks in the Port Royal rookery. Impossible to get a count of how many were around.
Snowy Egret Over A Swamp
Not sure how I spotted this Snowy. This was in the back side of the Port Royal rookery, where chaos is the normal.
While the area was dark I was metering for white birds so they came out pretty good. Being so photogenic didn’t hurt either.
The golden slippers looked nice here too.
White Birds
White Birds, that has becomes our short name for most wading birds. This time of year I find myself with ‘orphan’ photos preloaded to the web site. It’s easy for them to get lost, better I publish a quick page.
White Birds
White Birds
White Birds
White Birds
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
This is the second part of our trip around the Santee Delta using both North and South Santee Rivers and various creeks.
Neither river is particularly wide, they curve through the marshes and what were large rice fields. This area was a huge patch work of rice fields owned by different plantations. The rivers and creeks were they major paths in and out of the region.
Below are photographs taken as we traveled towards Hampton Plantation. The rivers became smaller, finally we cut across marshes in old canals and creeks.
As we got closer to Hampton Chris pushed us through very shallow water, at times he pulled up the motor so we could go over top downed trees and logs.
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Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Scenes From The Delta – # 2
Below is a map of the area that includes part of the Santee Rivers, and the Hampton Creek. The creek leads to the Hampton Plantation which backs up to the water. You can see there is only marsh and creeks for miles. Oh yeah, also an abandoned boat that may be kind of occupied now.
Click this link to view the first article of the delta series.
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