Bye Sanibel

Today we leave Sanibel. We had a wonderful winter and saw, and photographed!, many lovely birds. Onward to St. Mark's National Wildlife...

Ding Darling

Today at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge we went to a talk on identifying birds given by Bill Thompson, III, editor of Bird Watcher...

More Pileated Woodpeckers in Flight

Here are some more Pileated Woodpeckers in flight that I photographed on Sanibel Island, FL. These four photos were taken on 2/26/05. Photo ...

Pileated Woodpeckers

These photos of Pileated Woodpeckers were taken on Sanibel Island last year and this year. They are of the subspecies D. p. pileatus, which ...

Happy Landing

One of the tricks to photographing birds in flight, is to anticipate their movements before they take off. This Tri-colored Heron looked lik...

Great Blue

Here is a photo of a Great Blue Heron in breeding plumage. Notice the blue lore in front of the eye. I photographed this other Great Blue He...

Fly By

(click on image for larger version ) We recently went with the Sanibel Captiva Audubon Society on a sunset cruise boat ride, run by Tarpon B...

Safe Journey

Yesterday, late in the day, we saw two migrating Barn Swallows heading north along the beach. Hurray, spring is coming. Safe journey, Barn S...

Daisy Dog

For those of you who are fans of "Daisy", our Pembroke Welsh Corgi, here are some "Daisy Moments" ..... Good Dog Salty D...

Room With a View

As if Fish Crows weren't funny enough — with their "Uhn-Uhn"..."Uh-Huh" calls, we name them "the bird who can...

Just Ducky

One of the wonderful things about photographing birds is that it makes you spend extended time with birds, and in so doing gain an intimate ...

Share Birding

We had a wonderful time introducing our friends Beth and James Aponovich to birding. They picked it up very quickly. As artists they have g...