Belted Kingfisher Female Inflight
Megaceryle alcyon
Double-crested Cormorant In-water Portrait
As soon as it turns its head into a side view, this Double-crested Cormorant looks like a completely different bird.
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.