| We will post some of our favorite, more recent pictures here first! |
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| 7/18/08 An evening trip down the DE coast offered some beautiful sights along with sunset and moon rise. A Seaside Sparrow popped out of the reeds while juveniles searched the mud for dinner. Willets, Spotted Sandpipers,SB Dowitchers, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs were feeding. Forster's Terns, showing their typically longer tail feathers, were posted on the pilings. |
| And again, a few additional pics from our late June Florida trip. (Yes, more are still to come!) We obviously couldn't get enough of the sights down south. A Wilson's Plover surprised us; a Muscovy Duck and her large brood were headed towards some water on a hot day near Orlando; the now well-documented Black Skimmer colony; and a Great Blue Heron along the moss strewn St. John's River. |
| We finally revisited photo files from our trip to Florida in June 2008 and had to share yet more pics of the Black Skimmer colony. The chicks were precious and the food transfer was fascinating. |
| Least Terns were also nesting there |
| After a month's hiatus from birding, we returned from various work and family related trips. On 8/20/08 we caught a distant peek of the reported Black-bellied Whistling Duck at 1000 Acres Marsh in DE. (Sorry, no pics.) Trips back to the marsh on 8/23/+8/24 allowed us to capture interacting Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs with beautiful reflections but we couldn't find the BBWD again. Marbled Godwits were sighted in the distance and various peeps were frantically feeding. At Bombay Hook, Ruby-throated Hummers studied us as carefully as we studied them! The little male was not very obliging. |
Above: Nice Greater and Lesser comparison and two Lessers trying to drown each other. A Black Swallowtail Butterfly.