Wild Delaware

In a day of photographing oddities including a piebald deer, Red-breasted Mergansers and Ruddy Turnstones I might as well add a Red-throated Loon to the list. Cape Henlopen State Park was alive today with animals I seldom see.

One of nature’s abnormalities, a piebald deer grazes with “normal” white-tailed deer at twilight in Cape Henlopen State Park today.

Riding the surf from his perch on a rock, an adult Herring Gull catches a wave this afternoon at Cape Henlopen State Park.

A Red-breasted Merganser stretches his wings this afternoon in the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Henlopen State Park.

It was a bad day to be a mussel in Cape Henlopen State Park this morning as Herring Gulls and Ruddy Turnstones were feasting on bivalves exposed by a low tide.

An immature Herring Gull takes a couple of steps to launch into the sky over Cape Henlopen State Park.

English House Sparrow, Purple Grackle, Robin, Cardinal and Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco

Soon they will be gone, migrating back to Canada’s tundra to mate and raise their young. But for now, snow geese continue to be a great subject to photograph in Delaware. Here, two flocks take to the air over a Sussex County salt marsh.

A pair of snow geese take off from a Lewes area wheat field covered with about an inch of snow.

Snow covered branches frame the setting moon this morning. Storm clouds obscured the lunar eclipse last night but by sunrise the storm had passed and the moon had cleared the earth’s shadow.