Wild Delaware

I’m back from an assignment that took me to the West Coast and then to London, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. And I’m very happy to be back photographing Delaware wildlife again! The past few days have brought large concentrations of migrating great egrets, snowy egrets and the first flocks of snow geese to the salt marshes in and around Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Tony Pratt of Lewes showed me a salt marsh near Prime Hook that is covered with red saltwort (Salicornia europaea) and the spot is a favorite for dozens of egrets, a flock of shoveller ducks and a few gulls at sunrise. The bright autumn color of the Saltwort makes a great background for the feeding and flying birds. In the first photograph (below) two great egrets go after the same minnow at the same time. The egrets got into a feeding territory tussle and the fish went free.

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