I knew he was about to take off, he had the sticks and was leaning off the trees. Of course he went in the opposite direction I had been ready for.
I’m OK with these. Any shots of a Stork exit and flight is good.
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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.
Anhinga, a transplant from South America. They moved up from the Amazon, through Central America, and now moving through North America. Obviously they are not a push over. In fact only the Alligators aren’t afraid of them.
Anhinga is a Brazilian Tupi tribe word for a ‘snake bird’.
Anhinga in a Cypress swamp.
Home in a swamp. Yellow-crowned Night Herons.
I like this, not because it’s a perfectly composed and arranged photograph. It’s not. However the image has all the elements of a southern wildlife photograph. It tells a story.
A turtle sharing his space.
One of those ‘you never know what you might find’ shots.
A church/chapel from 1725, out in the country.
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.
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.
