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		<title>Green Heron: Cahooque Creek Kayak Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cahooque Creek is just a few miles from my back door step and makes a for a nice little paddle when the winds are up or the tides aren&#8217;t right for exploring the area&#8217;s estuarine environments. It&#8217;s not the best paddle location for wildlife photos but occassionally you get lucky. Recently I got lucky. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semipalmated Plover on the Beaches of the Crystal Coast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The semipalmated Plover is a small bird somewhat resembling a Killdeer. Eating insects, worms and crustaceans, these birds seach for food along beaches and on tidal flats. These photos were made near Beaufort Inlet in late June, 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Spooky Birds: Sometimes the Kayak Lets You Get Close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are certanin large wading birds I always love to see. However, those birds also are some of most skiddish birds found around the Crystal Coast. A couple that are always especially hard to get a shot of are Reddish Egrets and Little Blue Herons&#8230; though admittedly the more common Great Blue Heron and Great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=310</link>
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		<title>Least Tern Colony on Crystal Coast Beaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Least Tern is the smallest of the terns found along North Carolina&#8217;s coast. A migratory bird, the Least Tern spends its winters in Central America and the Carribean. In the spring they return to coastal areas of North America to reproduce. With a population of about 21,500 pairs this little bird isn&#8217;t listed as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=307</link>
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		<title>More of the Banker Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post I had a bit of trouble locating horses on the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve last week. I had a bit more success yesterday morning. I found a small group consisting of one stallion and three mares out on the shoals. They even entertained me by crossing from one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=304</link>
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		<title>Plan Ahead But Be Flexible: Out Foxed by the Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rolled out of bed early this morning with a solid plan for some nature photography on Carrot Island. I&#8217;d launch the boat at Fisherman&#8217;s Park, Front and Gordon Streets in Beaufort, and make the forty-five second paddle across the creek to beach my kayak. I&#8217;d then go on foot to photograph some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=299</link>
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		<title>Banker Horses in the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mention the term &#8220;wild horses&#8221; and most people will think of Mustangs, cowboys and the Old West. But there is an even older herd living on North Carolina&#8217;s barrier islands. To be honest, calling them &#8220;wild horses&#8221; isn&#8217;t exactly accurate. Both the Banker Horses and their western cousins are actually feral animals&#8230; descendents of once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Smokey Mountain Waterfalls: Cherokee &amp; Bryson City, NC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to spend a few days in Western North Carolina in the Smokey Mountains. Anytime I&#8217;m in that area waterfalls are at the top of my &#8220;to do list.&#8221; I set-up camp in the Deep Creek area of the Great Smokely Mountains National Park and used that as my base of operations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=290</link>
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		<title>Ruddy Turnstone:  A Migratory Visitor to the Crystal Coast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ruddy Turnstone, once included in the Plover family, is a migratory member of the sandpiper family. Like many of our migratory shorebird visitors the Ruddy Turnstone breeds in tundra areas during the summer. Over winter and during migration they can be found along coastal areas, preferring mudflats they can alos be found along rocky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=286</link>
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		<title>Getting Where the Birds Are: Using a Kayak for Photography.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t noticed my kayak has become one of my favorite tools for taking photographs of birds. There&#8217;s really only one reason for this recently discovered love affair; the kayak gets you to where the birds are. Not only does it get you to the birds, the birds are more tolerant of a water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carolinafootprints.com/?p=281</link>
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