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  • Yellow-breastedChat

    Yellow-breastedChat

    Icteria Virens

  • Song of Solitude

    Song of Solitude

    Grasshopper Sparrow
    Ammodramus Savannarum

    The tiny grasshopper sparrow is one of my favorite birds, and I usually fill the frame when I photograph one. In this image, however, I wanted to capture the happiness of this sparrow when it is singing alone on one of the posts of a long barbed wire fence line. Each time I observe these sparrows, it reminds me of what joy there is to be discovered in solitude.

  • Dickcissel

    Dickcissel

    Spiza Americana

  • Eastern Meadowlark

    Eastern Meadowlark

    Sturnella Magna

  • Meadowlark Morning

    Meadowlark Morning

    Eastern Meadowlark
    Sturnella Magna

  • Song of the Dickcissel

    Song of the Dickcissel

    Spiza Americana

  • Crossing To Safety

    Crossing To Safety

    Palm Warbler Setophaga Palmarum The title of this image comes from Wallace Stegner's fine novel, "Crossing to Safety." For some reason, that's what came to mind when I first saw this composition.

  • Where The Light Breaks Through

    Where The Light Breaks Through

    Palm Warbler
    Setophaga Palmarum

    This palm warbler was perched in a small pocket of light against a dark backdrop of shapes and colors that reminded me of a stained glass window in a medieval church.

  • Great Egret in the Autumn Marsh Grass

    Great Egret in the Autumn Marsh Grass

    Great Egret
    Ardea Alba

    In marsh adjacent to Shem Creek in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

  • Female Northern Cardinal

    Female Northern Cardinal

    Northern Cardinal
    Cardinalis Cardinalis

    Never underestimate the power of sunflower seeds to bring wonder and beauty into your yard throughout the winter.

  • Merlin

    Merlin

    Falco Columbarius

  • Eastern Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird

    Sialia Sialis "The bluebird carries the sky on his back." Henry David Thoreau

  • Palm Warbler

    Palm Warbler

  • Cape May Warbler — Image II

    Cape May Warbler — Image II

    Setophaga Tigrina

  • Eastern Bluebird

    Eastern Bluebird

    Sialia Sialis

    Made during a walk this morning through the South Carolina Botanical Garden.

  • Marsh Landing

    Marsh Landing

    Willet
    Tringa Simipalmata

    Mudflats of marsh adjacent to Highway 703 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

  • Tricolored Heron

    Tricolored Heron

    Egretta Tricolor

    Image made at Huntingdon Beach State Park, South Carolina

  • Northern Cardinal at Dawn

    Northern Cardinal at Dawn

    Northern Cardinal Cardinalis Cardinalis "There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." Rachel Carson

  • Palm Warber

    Palm Warber

    Setophaga Palmarum

  • Great Blue Heron With Dinner

    Great Blue Heron With Dinner

    Great Blue Heron
    Ardea Herodias

    Huntington Beach State Park
    South Carolina

  • Anhinga

    Anhinga

    Anhinga Anhinga

    Huntington Beach State Park
    South Carolina

  • Northern Harrier Attacking Prey

    Northern Harrier Attacking Prey

    Northern Harrier
    Circus Cyaneus

  • Cape May Warbler — Image I

    Cape May Warbler — Image I

    Setophaga Tigrina

  • The Cardinal in Autumn I

    The Cardinal in Autumn I

    Northern Cardinal
    Cardinalis Cardinalis

  • The Cardinal in Autumn III

    The Cardinal in Autumn III

    Northern Cardinal
    Cardinalis Cardinalis

  • Swamp Sparrow

    Swamp Sparrow

    Melospiza Georgiana

  • After The Rain

    After The Rain

    Northern Cardinal
    Cardinalis Cardinalis

    Late in the day, after a drenching rain, my eyes were drawn to the contrast of this cardinal with the rain-soaked leaves of a Japanese maple.

  • Carolina Wren

    Carolina Wren

    Thryothorus ludovicianus

  • Portrait of a Male Downy Woodpecker

    Portrait of a Male Downy Woodpecker

    Downy Woodpecker
    Picoides pubescens

  • Spring at Last

    Spring at Last

    Great Egret
    Ardea Alba

    A beautiful day in upstate South Carolina, the trees producing a magnificent kaleidoscope of unfolding colors, many birds engaged in their annual mating rituals, others content to be alone, watching, as I am, the ineffable mystery and magic of springtime.

  • Monet and the Great Blue Heron

    Monet and the Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron
    Ardea Herodias

    Okay, it's just an image of a great blue heron taking off from the edge of a pond. The impressionistic background of the field, however, reminded me of a Monet landscape.

  • Red-Shouldered Hawk

    Red-Shouldered Hawk

    Red-Shouldered Hawk
    Buteo Lineatus
    South Carolina Botanical Garden
    Clemson, South Carolina

    What would the world be, once bereft
    Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
    O let them be left, wildness and wet;
    Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

    Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • Wildness on the Wing

    Wildness on the Wing

    Great Blue Heron
    Ardea Herodias

  • Latest in Avian Spring Fashion

    Latest in Avian Spring Fashion

    Great Blue Heron
    Ardea Herodias

    Lake Conestee Nature Park
    Mauldin, South Carolina

  • Hooded Merganser (Male)

    Hooded Merganser (Male)

    Simpson Research Station
    Pendleton, South Carolina
    February 28, 2019

  • Solitary Sandpiper

    Solitary Sandpiper

    Tringa solitaria

  • The Still Point

    The Still Point

    Greater Yellowlegs Tringa Melanoleuca "At the still point of the turning world . . . at the still point, there the dance is." T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets"

  • Song of the Prairie Warbler

    Song of the Prairie Warbler

    Prairie Warbler
    Setophaga discolor

    Fants Grove Wildlife Management Area
    Anderson Country
    South Carolina

  • Savannah on the Wire

    Savannah on the Wire

    Savannah Sparrow
    Passerculus sandwichensis

  • Lincoln's Sparrow

    Lincoln's Sparrow

    Lincoln's Sparrow
    Melospiza lincolnii
    Beaverdam Wildlife Management Area
    Townville, South Carolina

    With the myriad avian colors of spring — the bright reds, blues, and yellows — it's easy to overlook the little brown and gray birds. This morning, however, I was delighted to locate a Lincoln's Sparrow, which is a rare sighting for this place at this time of year.

  • Eastern Kingbird

    Eastern Kingbird

    Tyrannus tyrannus

  • Common Yellowthroat

    Common Yellowthroat

    Geothlypis trichas A common yellowthroat perches in a small tree, absorbing the first light of morning. This image reminds me of something said by the painter Edouard Manet: "There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another."

  • Recovering from a Rainy Night

    Recovering from a Rainy Night

    Savannah Sparrow
    Passerculus Sandwichensis

  • Grasshopper Sparrow

    Grasshopper Sparrow

    Ammodramus savannarum

  • Dickcissel

    Dickcissel

    Spiza americana

  • Goldfinch and Sunflowers

    Goldfinch and Sunflowers

    American Goldfinch
    Spinus tristis

  • Dickcissel on Wire

    Dickcissel on Wire

    Dickcissel
    Spiza americana

    Dobbins Farm
    Townville, South Carolina

  • Great Blue Heron

    Great Blue Heron

    Ardea Herodias
    Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, Maryland

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