A Sampling Of Wildlife From My Recent Eastern Shore Trip

A heavily cropped version of the image below.  Two snow geese. (click any image to enlarge)

This is the last post in my series of posts showing some of my images from my winter Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland photo trip earlier this month.  You can view my previous posts with a variety of other images here, here and here.  

I wanted to share a sample of the kinds of birds and wildlife one can easily see along the Mid-Atlantic coast.  All images were made with my Fujifilm X-T4 and the Fujifilm 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lens.

Unfortunately, due to changes in the Atlantic Flyway migration patterns, there seems to be only a tenth or so of the birds in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island in Virginia than there were several years ago.  At least, that is what the rangers have told me.  The rangers say the birds are either flying farther south and not stopping in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (CNWR) or flying inland.  When I first started making these annual trips, there were snow geese by the tens of thousands as well as more wading birds, shore birds and waterfowl. But, there are still a lot of birds and other animals to enjoy and photograph.

The famous wild ponies of Chincoteague.  I counted 16 in this and a nearby group.  The most
I've ever seen.  Mostly you see two or three eating.

Green Heron in sun with deep shade behind.

Female Bufflehead.

Right after I made this exposure, the raccoon below crawled up on this log.  The egret on the right
immediately flew off.  But the one on the left stayed until the raccoon was almost at its feet.  I do
have images of all that.

Tundra Swan.

Turkey Buzzards.  The other common species is the Black Buzzard. They have black heads.

Tundra Swan.  Not too long after the sun rose.

I hope you enjoyed the CNWR and Eastern Shore Photo Trip posts.  If you are interested in photographing birds, these and other nearby wildlife refuges make it relatively easy to spot and make images of them.  You also can photograph quite a bit from your vehicle, if you so choose.

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Thanks for looking. Enjoy! 

Dennis A. Mook 

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