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Posted in general, wildlife photography on Aug 14th, 2010
Today we had a CNPA outing to the northern end of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We were hoping to see the nesting skimmers and least terns, but they were nowhere to be found. They had been there as recently as last week, but there was none on [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 13th, 2010
Here are a couple more images from my recent trip to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. It was a cloudy morning when I took the below images. Therefore, I increased my ISO so that I would have enough shutter speed to stop the action of the birds actively feeding in the water. In this [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 8th, 2010
Over the New Year’s holiday I had spent some time down in Florida photographing birds at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Viera Wetlands. It was a fairly successful trip. Unfortunately, I did not get to spend as much time at Merritt Island since the drive was closed one afternoon due to an accident on [...]
Posted in general, news, travel reports on Oct 30th, 2009
This past weekend the CNPA Outer Banks Region had an overnight outing to Ocracoke Island and Portsmouth Island, barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. We all had a great time, and we were lucky with some rain-free days. It seems most of the days lately have been cloudy and wet. Here are a couple of images [...]
Posted in general, wildlife photography on Sep 21st, 2009
This past Saturday our Outer Banks Region of the CNPA went on an outing to Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. We all had a great time and were blessed with perfect weather conditions for photographing the waterfowl. The overcast skies allowed us to photograph the birds until noon.
Sylvan Heights is home [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Aug 13th, 2009
This past weekend we had a CNPA Outer Banks Region monthly outing to the sand flats near the Bonner Bridge on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. We arrived early in the morning so that we could capture the sunrise. Once the sun came up, we are able to see that the black skimmers and least [...]
Posted in general, wildlife photography on Apr 20th, 2009
I was looking through my recent pelican images from my outing to Wanchese Harbor last month in which I captured some wonderful pictures of pelicans in flight. I haven’t been out photographing too much lately as I have been doing a lot of computer work. Thought I would share another pelican image from last month. The [...]
Posted in general, travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 20th, 2009
Over the past weekend I participated in the Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association (CNPA) mid-year outing on the Outer Banks. On one of the outings I went to the Pungo Unit of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. The Pungo Unit consists of dirt roads and agriculture fields and is a favorite spot to almost 85,000 wintering [...]
Posted in travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 15th, 2009
The hooded merganser drake has been a species that I have wanted to add to my stocklist. I have had the opportunity in the past to photograph the hen but not the drake. The morning that I photographed the mergansers at the Viera Wetlands they were swimming and diving in some beautiful blue water. I was happy that the water [...]
Posted in travel reports, wildlife photography on Jan 14th, 2009
There is a pair of bald eagles that nest just off the Viera Wetlands property, and the eagles are regularly seen around the wetlands. I was hoping that on this trip I would be able to get some up close images of the eagles. On my previous visits I only saw the eagles fly over the [...]