http://www.wilddelaware.com photography for a new book by Kevin Fleming Sat, 17 May 2008 10:35:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is great to learn people really care about wildlife in Delaware and that so many are following my year-long journey to create Wild Delaware. I would like to share a comment from yesterday. Thanks! "Please let Kevin know that he gives a great deal of pleasure to people ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/17/thanks/ Camouflage means obscuring or hiding things to deceive an enemy. Many animals and insects have very elaborate ways to camouflage themselves. The American Bittern has a rather simple but effective camouflage. When threatened, they raise their head so their bill and striped chest look like reeds in ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/16/camoflage-master/ It is mid-May and opossum babies like this handsome guy have outgrown their mother's pouch. Opossums are marsupials meaning they begin life in in a marsupium (a pouch) that has the mother's mammary glands and offers a warm shelter for tiny, newborn babies. Our Delaware 'possums are related ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/15/playing-possum/ Here's a reminder that signed and framed prints from Wild Delaware are on exhibit at the Rehoboth Art League for the month of May. If you are in the area I hope you can stop by!  Thanks, Kevin http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/15/visit-wild-delaware/ Between photographing close-ups of birds yesterday at White Clay Creek State Park (see images below) I looked a little closer at life on a leaf and found this crane fly and tiny spider living in a very green world. http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/15/living-la-vida-verde/ Like low-digit Delaware license plates, there will only be 1,000 signed and numbered copies of Wild Delaware. Publication is this November but if you order now you will receive a signed and numbered copy of Wild Delaware plus two free signed lithographs plus free shipping. Just click Order Wild Delaware ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/15/748/ White Clay Creek State Park near Newark was alive today with a mix of resident birds and migrating birds moving toward the northern states and Canada. Many of the migrating birds will be gone in the next few days and they will be followed by others heading north. ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/14/ready-for-their-close-up/ Barn swallows prefer to nest on man-made structures and this one lives under a bridge adjacent to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Hopefully his nest survived yesterday storm tide raging under the bridge. http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/13/stretching-swallow/ It is impossible to imagine the devastation to wildlife by yesterday's coastal storm that battered Delaware with wind gusts up to 56 mph, torrential rains and severe flooding along inland bays and wetlands. This morning I found a grackle gathering material to rebuild its nest that was destroyed by ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/13/time-to-rebuild/ Last night and today has been difficult for much of Delaware's wildlife. There has been so much coastal flooding along the inland bays and ocean that birds like gulls and terns that nest on the ground have had their nests destroyed. Other animals like fox and groundhogs that ... http://www.wilddelaware.com/2008/05/12/storm-damage/