wildlife

Left washed up on shore while Mom go hunting until the next tide comes in.

Left washed up on shore while Mom go hunting until the next tide comes in.

Beautiful captive bred male pheasant in a breeding facility that I cared for.

I barely got my porch window up a few inches to shoot these and without spooking the GBH. I saw the GBH stalking, in the grass & up over the grounded pier not knowing what it was after. Then it stabbed my chippie and dunked it in the water before gulping it down. The only one out of quite a few...

3 different red foxes.

Flickers are woodpeckers that use their long curved tongues to harvest their main food source of beetles and ants out of the ground. The eastern part of the US usually sees yellow-shafted flickers, the western part sees red-shafted. Males have black mustaches, females don't. Female in nest...

White-winged crossbills are irruptive finches that will move to the next good food source of which their beaks are specialized for getting hard to harvest seeds from conifer cones. Males are pink, females yellowish green.

This garden snake showed me all its stretches one day while I was sitting shooting insects in the flowers .

Some of my favorites shots of them over the years

Bohemian Waxwings feasting on fermenting fruit. Sometimes they get so intoxicated that they just sit on the ground around people walking by.

This great blue heron really put its brakes on when it decided to land on the rocks. Photographed at Tidal Falls in Hancock, Maine.

When 2 pileated woodpeckers flew across the bay, they came almost over my head as they passed over land.

It was up there in the sunshine eating leaves.

The otter was catching fish and kept coming in to get a better look at me.

A seal is swimming around Tidal Falls in Hancock, Maine where often herd the fish around the old lobster pound.

Great egret flying low over the water.

This killdeer stood up over her eggs and I was able to get this photo of them. Killdeers nest on the ground, often in driveways and other unsafe locations.

During the 1st snow of the season this blue jay looked beautiful with the fire bush behind it.

A pair of bald eagles are having a little squabble on the branch overlooking a river stream.

With 32 turkeys in the yard and the dominant Tom displaying, I slipped out the back door to try to get some shots of him. Missed him today, but got a bunch of flight shots as they flew across the road.