Gulf of Mexico

Gulf Shore Yellow-crowned Night Heron

By |2021-07-03T04:07:15-06:00September 2nd, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Yellow-crowned Night Herons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I did see and photograph this adult Yellow-crowned Night Heron standing on a grassy sand dune overlooking the Gulf of Mexico in beautiful, soft light.

Gulf Shore Great Egret with a Loose Head Feather

By |2021-07-29T04:10:04-06:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This might be the only image I have in my portfolio that shows a Great Egret with a loose head feather waving above its head at a jaunty angle.

Black Skimmer Skimming the Gulf

By |2022-04-24T05:06:40-06:00April 29th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Black Skimmers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

My own technique for photographing this Black Skimmer skimming the Gulf and other skimmers that day was to sit down in the water right where the waves crested and moved on shore.

Juvenile American Oystercatcher On The Shore Of The Gulf

By |2020-11-06T05:36:01-07:00January 21st, 2016|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I watched this juvenile American Oystercatcher on the shore of the Gulf grow up in 2008 at Fort De Soto County Park's north beach.

Ghost Crab at Fort De Soto County Park

By |2021-06-10T04:16:44-06:00December 6th, 2015|Categories: Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Ghost Crabs, Pinellas County, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I am not sure why this particular Ghost Crab was out of its burrow during the day but I was happy that I had the opportunity to photograph it.

Scoop Of Black Skimmers Flying Past Shell Key

By |2022-04-24T06:56:02-06:00October 26th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Black Skimmers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I haven't seen Black Skimmers in over six years now but in my mind I can still hear them calling when I look at my images of a group of them in flight.

An American Oystercatcher’s running lift off

By |2020-11-06T05:51:40-07:00June 9th, 2015|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

American Oystercatchers are one of my favorite shorebirds to photograph along the Gulf of Mexico because of their unusual appearance.

Snowy Egrets on the Gulf Coast

By |2021-04-26T11:09:52-06:00May 23rd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Snowy Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm hoping to add images of Snowy Egrets to my portfolio this summer that might be taken at Farmington Bay WMA or up north at Bear River National Wildlife Refuge.

Western Sandpiper Foraging on the North Beach of Fort De Soto

By |2024-03-21T05:54:30-06:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Western Sandpipers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This is just a simple post of a foraging Western Sandpiper that I found while working on moving my images from their old galleries to the new ones yesterday.

Resting Ruddy Turnstone male

By |2021-05-17T07:21:56-06:00March 11th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Ruddy Turnstones|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I photographed this resting Ruddy Turnstone male on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico in 2009 I knew it wouldn't be long before he migrated to a rocky arctic coast to breed.

American Oystercatcher Family

By |2020-11-06T05:30:53-07:00March 10th, 2015|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It has been five and a half years since I photographed American Oystercatchers at Fort De Soto County Park in Florida and oddly enough I still dream about these shorebirds.

Double-crested Cormorant coming in for a landing

By |2024-03-27T05:41:38-06:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Double-crested Cormorants, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm glad the Double-crested Cormorant didn't decide to relive itself as it came in to land or I might have been wearing white-wash!

Dark and White Morph Reddish Egrets in Breeding Plumage

By |2020-01-25T08:06:27-07:00February 15th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One May morning in 2009 I was able to photograph both the dark and white morph Reddish Egret in breeding plumage just minutes and yards apart at Fort De Soto's north beach.

Red-shouldered Hawk Surveying Fort De Soto’s North Beach

By |2024-02-04T08:53:57-07:00February 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Red-shouldered Hawks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This Red-shouldered Hawk was just a few feet away from a tidal lagoon and just yards away from the Gulf when I photographed it in November of 2008.

Great Egrets – Big White Wading Birds

By |2024-03-21T04:25:58-06:00January 18th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

After posting Great Blue Heron images yesterday I decided to post images of Great Egrets which are also a large wading bird species this morning.

A few minutes up close with a Great Blue Heron on the Florida Coast

By |2021-04-17T18:58:39-06:00January 17th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Photographing this bird brought back memories of a day I spotted a Great Blue Heron struggling because it was caught in a trotline in the Chattahoochee River in Georgia

Ring-billed Gull Age Progression

By |2021-10-25T05:25:02-06:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Ring-billed Gulls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

In February of 2011 I wrote about the age progression of Bald Eagles along with images to illustrate the ages, today I am doing the same but with Ring-billed Gulls.

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