Category Archives: Nissequogue River

Golden Slippers

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

I hit the river for about three hours yesterday. I took 499 photos. This was the best shot of the day. I nailed this Snowy Egret as he was flying past me. You can clearly see his bright yellow feet in this shot and his face is in near perfect focus. I lucked out here. The only thing lacking here is green. Green really helps bring a nature pic alive. In another month this same scene will be much more colorful, with that yellow face and those feet standing out against Mother Nature’s favorite color. Of course I won’t manage to put the bird in focus then. JK

Here’s the same shot, with a close up of the head.

Muskrat

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Monday, April 21, 2008

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I came across this muskrat in a marshy channel where I can usually find mallards hanging out. If you follow the channel in, you come to a dead end where, sometimes, if I’m very lucky, I get to see a muskrat or two. In my experience, these critters are very shy and I count myself more lucky than stealthy when I manage to get a shot of one. As it was, this one hung out, motionless, for three or four minutes before deciding he wasn’t fooling me. Then he dove under the water, perhaps to an entrance of a burrow. Muskrats often dig openings to their nests below the waterline, and on many occasions I’ve seen them swimming along and diving when they reach the riverbank.

Double Crested Cormorant

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

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This Double Crested Cormorant and a few of his friends were sunning themselves on this dock in Kings Park. In this shot you can see one of the two crests that give this bird its name. To me the crests look more like the eyebrows of some mad scientist. And those bright blue eyes add an extra touch of wildness to their countenance. But maybe that’s just me.