Wild Delmarva

A Great Blue Heron has a precarious perch on a salt marsh mud bank tonight near sunset. Herons were struggling against a strong wind today.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

The local bird watching world was atwitter last November when this unusual Black-bellied Whistling-Duck landed in Rehoboth Beach. This striking and gregarious duck of the Neotropics usually only reaches the United States in the very southern parts. Surviving the winter, this visitor now looks quite at home on Silver Lake.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

I always think of Great Blue Herons as being really more gray than blue. But when their wings are in the shade they can appear quite blue to the camera. This heron passed by me yesterday at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

We had a week of dark, cloudy weather and bad light that didn’t allow any photography. Now I’m on assignment in Florida and Jay is vacationing in Costa Rica so there won’t be any new wildlife posts until next week.

Thanks for watching and I hope we will be able to add new post every day.

Kevin

A long telephoto lens magnifies the setting sun in Kent County, Delaware.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

photograph by Jay Fleming

Thousands of snow geese are still wintering in Delaware but as the weather warms they will migrate north to breed in Canada. Last night at sunset this large flock took off from a Kent County, Delaware field.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

A female Red Fox hunts along the edge of a snow covered salt marsh and then crossed a frozen fresh water pond tonight near sunset.

Photographs by Kevin Fleming

Two Great Blue Herons take wing over a salt marsh today.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

Snowfall covered Sussex County yesterday and the snow geese were on the move looking for something to eat. Thousands poured into a field near Lewes yesterday afternoon.

Photographs by Kevin Fleming