Some local birds to feast your eyes on..
This profile shot of an Orange-crowned Warbler makes it look very dumpy and chubby but also cute.
Most of the following pics taken at Fort Fisher.
Great Egret
White Ibis
American Oystercatcher
Palm Warbler
Song Sparrow
Prairie Warbler
Snowy Egret
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Boat-tailed Grackle
Cooper's Hawk
The conditions started to line up perfectly for an up close and personal photo shoot with a Tricolored Heron at the Fort Fisher Rocks.
After immortalizing the Tricolored, I headed over to the Ferry Parking and started racking up passerines.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Blue-headed Vireo
Prairie Warbler
Swamp Sparrow
WTF! Grasshopper Sparrow. Not something I expected to see here out of migration.
Northern Cardinal - there is something appealing about the juxtaposition of rusted steel fencing and pretty birds that gets my juices flowing.
House Finch
American Bluebird
Sedge Wren over by the aquarium trail.
The following pics were all taken in the Wrightsville Beach area.
Laughing Gull taken at Johnnie Mercer's Pier - nothing to laugh about now huh?
Brown Pelican
Sanderling
Ruddy Turnstone
"Western" Willet - in the winter they are all the Western sub-species. Eastern Willets migrate to central and south America. I sense a split coming soon for these to attain full species status.
Ring-billed Gull
American Kestrel
Now for some pics from Wade Park near my house.
The under-appreciated Mallard.
Great Blue Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Eider at WB.
The Rock Pigeon flock at Johnnie Mercer's.
All those birds photographed in only a couple days! In case I didn't mention earlier, I love a new year!
This profile shot of an Orange-crowned Warbler makes it look very dumpy and chubby but also cute.
Most of the following pics taken at Fort Fisher.
Great Egret
White Ibis
American Oystercatcher
Palm Warbler
Song Sparrow
Prairie Warbler
Snowy Egret
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Boat-tailed Grackle
Cooper's Hawk
The conditions started to line up perfectly for an up close and personal photo shoot with a Tricolored Heron at the Fort Fisher Rocks.
After immortalizing the Tricolored, I headed over to the Ferry Parking and started racking up passerines.
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Blue-headed Vireo
Prairie Warbler
Swamp Sparrow
WTF! Grasshopper Sparrow. Not something I expected to see here out of migration.
Northern Cardinal - there is something appealing about the juxtaposition of rusted steel fencing and pretty birds that gets my juices flowing.
House Finch
American Bluebird
Sedge Wren over by the aquarium trail.
The following pics were all taken in the Wrightsville Beach area.
Laughing Gull taken at Johnnie Mercer's Pier - nothing to laugh about now huh?
Brown Pelican
Sanderling
Ruddy Turnstone
"Western" Willet - in the winter they are all the Western sub-species. Eastern Willets migrate to central and south America. I sense a split coming soon for these to attain full species status.
Ring-billed Gull
American Kestrel
Now for some pics from Wade Park near my house.
The under-appreciated Mallard.
Great Blue Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Eider at WB.
The Rock Pigeon flock at Johnnie Mercer's.
All those birds photographed in only a couple days! In case I didn't mention earlier, I love a new year!
Great shots! Lots of birds I haven't managed to see in Virginia, even though we're just to the north.
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