All posts filed under: Wildlife

Snow Geese Under Morning Light

During our last photo outing to shoot snow geese as shown on my previous post “Snow Geese Photo Outing”, we did photograph the beautiful snow geese under warm and beautiful sunset light. However, we missed the shot of snow geese lift-off scene in early morning, […]

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Snow Geese Photo Outing

As a result of my recon trip to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in confirming the snow geese migration in this area last week, I took about ten of my photo friends for a snow chasing day trip two days ago (January 26, 2017). It […]

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Snow Geese at Prime Hook NWR

Thousands upon thousands of snow geese from Canadian Arctic Region migrate to Eastern Shores every winter from October through February and then head back north in March to their breeding ground. Since my first exposure to these magnificent birds in the winter of 2006-07, I’ve […]

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Red Fox at Bombay Hook NWR

We visited Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Delaware two days ago. We were looking for the migrated snow geese but did not find many around. Instead, while driving along the wildlife drive, we came across this beautiful red fox, what a pleasant surprise. […]

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Time to Build Nest …

Three weeks ago, I took this bald eagle picture flew over my head toward the electrical transmission tower carrying a big tree branch for nest building.  It’s a rare sight other than snatching fish from the water. I remember I posted a similar picture last […]

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Blue Footed Booby in Galapagos Islands

We visited Galapagos Islands during Christmas holidays four years ago. We saw many kinds of birds we normally do not see in lower continental USA. One particular bird really drew our attention was blue-footed booby – the adults and the chicks. We even saw a […]

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Bald Eagles at Blackwater NWR

On the way home to Frederick, Maryland from Chincoteague, VA two days ago, we stopped by Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge at Cambridge, Maryland. It rained early in the morning and as we arrived in mid morning it was cloudy but the sun did peek through […]

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Great Egrets at Chincoteague NWR

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Eastern Shores of Virginia is famous for its wild horses (ponies) and the winter snow geese migration. We were disappointed of not sighting any snow geese “flying in” the Refuge at dusk like we witnessed 2-3 years ago. However, […]

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Bald Eagle Catching Fish, Again

An adult bald eagle weighs 10-14 pounds and it’s amazing that it can lift a fish up to four pounds from the water and sometimes with only one powerful talons. It’s a challenge and also fun to capture (with camera) what they capture. No wonder so many […]

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How A Bald Eagle “Rob” A Fish

I have witnessed bald eagles fighting over fish many times and usually saw fish being dropping in the water or on the land (for vultures’ benefit) until yesterday when I went back to Conowingo Dam for more eagle photographing.  I have to admit when I […]

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