Snowy egrets, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

White ibis fledgling and parent, Port Royal Cypress Swamp, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

If you don't bring me dinner, you can be my dinner. Snowy egrets, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Snowy egret nestlings begging for a meal, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

White ibis parent feeding fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Ruddy turnstones feeding at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware youtu.be/naxusBNOKOM #birds #wildlifephotography

Ruddy turnstones feeding

Ruddy turnstones feeding among sanderlings and laughing gulls on the beach at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware

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Today will be my last trip to Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary before I head back to Alexandria. If you're out there this evening you might see me. But probably not. Video by Dinah Davison

Really? Tricolored heron fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

White ibis fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Tricolored heron fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Tricolored heron fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

A very newly hatched tricolored heron nestling, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Tricolored heron fledglings, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

Short video of a sanderling feeding at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware youtu.be/vhrVuGnnyIM #birds #wildlifephotography

Sanderling feeding

Sanderling feeding among semipalmated sandpipers in Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware

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I hate to say it, but heron nestlings are little monsters. They beg so aggressively that the parents always seem relieved to leave after regurgitating a meal. In one case I've even seen fledglings give chase. Snowy egrets, Port Royal Cypress Wetlands, South Carolina #birds #wildlifephotography

The Port Royal Cypress Wetlands is nuts. This seven-acre park in Port Royal, SC has hundreds of nesting wood storks, great and snowy egrets, little blue and tricolored herons, white ibis, and more, often too close for a 600 mm lens. Little blue heron feeding nestlings #birds #wildlifephotography

Juvenile and adult green herons, Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Georgia #birds #wildlifephotography

Black-bellied whistling duck, Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Georgia. #birds #wildlifephotography

The Kathwood Ponds at Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary were constructed to give wood storks a place to forage in late summer and early fall. Late in July the sanctuary lowers the water levels to give them good hunting, and there will be dozens. This was an early visitor. #birds #wildlifephotography

We've been notified that we'll be moving into the new building on Aug 10. Until then I'll be teleworking from Jackson, SC, so there will be lots of photos from Silver Bluff and Phinizy. Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron, Audubon's Silver Bluff Sanctuary, South Carolina. #birds #wildlifephotography

Semipalmated sandpipers feeding at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware #birds #wildlifephotography

Semipalmated sandpipers feeding

Semipalmated sandpipers feeding in Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware

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After the Evolution meeting in Cleveland, I had just a few hours free to explore the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve on the shore of Lake Erie. This American goldfinch looks like I used some kind of filter, but it's just out of focus leaves. #birds #wildlifephotography

More Cooper. Because who doesn't need more Cooper. When he's not busy making barrels, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other products made of wooden staves, he enjoys agility training and cheese. But mostly cheese. #dogs

This is Cooper. He's super duper. #dogs

Eastern kingbird, McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area #birds #wildlifephotography

Six weeks after my first visit, I returned to McKee-Beshers Wildlife Managment Area, Maryland to see fledgling least bitterns. By this time, the cattails were so high it was difficult to find a gap to see through, but I did see some fuzzy-headed goofballs. #birds #wildlifephotography

Sanderling, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware #birds #wildlifephotography

Sedge wren singing at Nine Springs Natural Area, Madison, Wisconsin #birds #wildlifephotography

Sedge wren singing

Sedge wren singing at Nine Springs Natural Area, Madison, Wisconsin

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Dunlin, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware #birds #wildlifephotography

Ruddy turnstone, Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware #birds #wildlifephotography