photoartflightSnowy Egret
Posted on October 11, 2014
This Snowy Egret had just landed along the Wildlife Drive and started looking for its breakfast meal. They are fun to watch darting around the water.
Mute Swans
Posted on October 9, 2014
I found these Mute Swans at the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. They were rather far out, so the images are cropped. I like how the water was a bright blue highlighting the large white birds.
Sleeping Great Blue Heron
Posted on September 27, 2014
We came upon this Sleeping Great Blue Heron along the Wildlife Drive at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. It seemed to be very content to sleep, but as I was photographing the Heron it starting moving and then looked more annoyed as if I was bothering his sleep. Probably just my take on it, but it had a very severe look as it was watching me. He was also very balanced standing on one leg. Either way I thought it was interesting photo.
Open Wide
Posted on September 19, 2014
When photographing birds, it seems like you can get quite a few humorous shots if you are patient and work an area for a while. Sometimes it is just luck or a single shot in a series
One Tree – Many Photos
Posted on September 13, 2014
We went to the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Brigantine Division a few weeks ago and I am still going through my files. Along the Wildlife Drive, near the end before the wooded area, is a small grove of trees. Usually you see an occasional hawk, egrets or small birds there. Once we even saw a Bald Eagle. But on this day it was filled with a variety of birds. We saw Black-crowned Night Herons, Immature Black-crowned Night Herons, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets and in the back under the branches was, I believe an immature Yellow-crowned Night Heron. It was fun to see that variety in the same tree.
Mute Swans in Wildflowers
Posted on September 13, 2014
We found these Mute Swans swimming and feeding among the wildflowers. I liked the large white birds interacting with each other and the pop of color from the wildflowers.
Egret Bookends
Posted on September 11, 2014
We came upon these 2 Egrets along the Wildlife Drive. Each one was looking the opposite way and each was standing on one leg, the opposite leg. I thought it looked interesting and a little amusing. The left was a Snowy Egret, the right Great Egret. Throughout the time we were there, we saw large numbers of all types of Egrets giving us a large amount of photo opportunities.
More Black Skimmers From Brigantine
Posted on September 8, 2014
I got a chance to go over more files from our last visit to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Brigantine Division, in Oceanville, NJ. On our last visit we had the opportunity to photograph lots of Black Skimmers, fairly close by.
Female Red-winged Blackbird
Posted on September 6, 2014
On our trip to the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, we saw large flocks of Female Red-winged Blackbirds in the plants along the Wildlife Drive. They are usually always here, but hard to photograph because as soon as you slow down they fly off. This trip I actually got quite a few shots of them, more than any other trip through the refuge.
Snowy Egrets
Posted on September 2, 2014
There were large amounts of Egrets at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Brigantine Division, in Oceanville, NJ. Almost everywhere we went we saw large amounts of birds, but being white, the different Egrets really stood out and were easy to spot. I saw this group of three Snowy Egrets fly in and started interacting with each other and liked the green grasses and blue water behind them with the white Snowy Egrets standing out.
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