There’s no doubt that this weeked was tiring. I spent the weekend leading the Horses of the Crystal Coast. We spent Saturday exploring the eastern end of Shackleford Banks. It took a bit of hiking […]
Tag Archives: Estuary
More Wild Horses
Here are a couple more shots from yesterday morning. If I’m not careful I forget to shoot any vertical photos of the wild horses. While the landscape format can be excellent for showing off these […]
More Wet & Wild Horses
Here are a few more shots of the horses crossing from island to island the other day.
Wet & Wild Horses
I finally had a chance to go for my first paddle of the new year. When paddling at high tide my goal is to find shore birds to photograph. However, sometimes I come across some […]
Rachel Carson Reserve Horses
While visiting the reserve the morning before Christmas I made a few photographs of a stallion and his one mare. At the moment the herd is broken up into individual bands called harems. The harems […]
Yellow Rumped Warbler
Affectionately known to birders as the “Butter Butt,” the Yellow Rumped Warbler is a very common bird along the North Carolina coast during the winter months. The little bird photographed below was seen on the […]
Shorebird Variety
I encountered a variety of different shorebirds on my morning paddle several days ago. Some of them I was able to get a nice variety of shots, allowing a post about each. Others, however, I […]
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Herons are the big birds of the salt marshes. In spite of being the largest bird in the marsh I find these beautiful creatures to be some of the most skittish as well. […]
Killdeer: A Shorebird That’s Not Always a Shorebird
To be honest I’m more used to seeing Killdeer in fields and meadows miles away from the beach than strolling along the shore with sand between their toes. They were a fairly common sight when […]
Juvenile Little Blue Heron
I went for a paddle this morning. Near the end of the trip I came upon a very cooperative juvenile Little Blue Heron. I was surprised at how close he allowed me to drift in […]