The recent day trip to Brigantine yielded my first photos of the
Gull-billed Tern, a regular but uncommon summer resident in Forsythe NWR ...
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| Gull-billed Tern |
Forster's Terns were not very cooperative as they fished the channels, usually choosing to give me backlight or their backside, but this one grabbed a worm out of the mud and I grabbed a photo ...
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| Forster's Tern |
The bubbling energy of wrens always engages me, none more so than the
Marsh Wren. Notice that this one is wearing jewelry ...
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| Marsh Wren |
Wrens are "troglodytes" - cave dwellers. There were at least two newly made "caves" in the vicinity of the singing male ...
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| Marsh Wren nest |
I wonder why this hen Mallard had only one duckling following her. Did her eggs not hatch? Had a predator taken eggs? Or had predators taken the young ducklings?
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| Mallard hen with her lone duckling |
Willets are common nesting shorebirds along the coast, their "pee-will-willet" carrying over the marsh grasses ...
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| Willet |
In a post early this spring, I said that one goal for this season was to capture the
Red-winged Blackbird showing his epaulets in all their glory. This gentleman cooperated magnificently ...
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| Red-winged Blackbird |
Good birding!!
2 comments:
Wonderful photos Chris. I love watching and listening to the wrens as well.
Great stuff Chris! That Marsh Wren photo is absolutely one of the best I've seen. It's so hard to do em' justice, but you nailed it!
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