Late Afternoon Takeoff: Three Geese
The Canada Geese usually leave this salt marsh in the late afternoon or early evening. When you hear them honking in chorus, you know they are about to take off. These Canada Geese took a leisurely quarter mile swim to the end of the channel, turned around, started honking, took off and are getting airborne. The marsh grass is just turning into its fall colors while the late afternoon September sun gives colorful water reflections.
End of Summer Snowy Egret Takeoff Wings Level
The marsh grass colors are starting to change as fall nears. A Snowy Egret takes off and skims the colorful grasses to a new location in the saltmarsh.
A Cormorant's feathers are not water repellent and they have to spread their wings to dry them off. This Cormorant was drying off on a well traveled foot path and was not scared of the people passing by.
Green Heron Peeking (Award: Best Photography)
©2018 Paul Sikorski A Green Heron heard me and took a peek.
A flock of Brants skim the surface of a sparkling blue ocean.
©2018 Paul Sikorski
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
I named this seagull Broken Beak. The front of both the upper and lower beak on this seagull is missing. The dark area on the front of the gull's beak is the inside of the beak.
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
An Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) comes up out of the water after catching a fish. Photographed in the spring of 2017.
A wet Song Sparrow flaps its wings to dry off.
The Green Heron is a very small heron weighing 7 ounces and can easily move around on and fish from lily pads.
©2018 Paul Sikorski
Killdeer Wading in a Salt Marsh
©2018 Paul Sikorski
©2018 Paul Sikorski I always look for natural or man-made symmetry to photograph. The positions of the boat pilings, cleats on the pilings for securing lines, waterlines on the bottom of the pilings and water reflections of the pilings are all in perfect symmetry.