Wild Delmarva

This Red Fox kit with a mouthful of Starling that I photographed in May 2009 will be in Wild Delmarva. Photographing young foxes here on the peninsula is not too difficult. Catching a moment like this makes a special image.

Sometimes it may be easier to steal a fish rather than catch a fish. That’s what this Forster’s Tern may have been thinking when it tried to take a fish away from a Snowy Egret. But I don’t think it was counting on a reprisal from the egret.

Selecting the photographs that make the book from tens of thousands of images can be challenging but not with a moment like this. Here, a Royal Tern feeds a fish to its chick and I was very lucky – even at 9 frames a second – to catch the split-second handoff. More challenging than catching moments and editing just the right image would be picking out your chick from the hundreds in this tern colony. To my eye, all of the terns and chicks look pretty much the same. But the parents can pick their chicks out of the crowd.