Photography Kevin Fleming on 12 Jul 2008 01:54 pm
reflections on a beautiful morning
Today dawned with a huge red sun magnified by a layer of haze hugging the horizon. My son Jay took me by boat to a rookery on Indian River Bay that we had photographed several times before. The Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons were there as expected along with a flock of Oyster Catchers and a special prize for me, a Clapper Rail. I’ve seen Clapper Rails before but only for a second or two at a time as they disappear into a thick, green thatch of salt marsh cordgrass. Before we left, we saw a female Red-Winged Blackbird and Brown Pelicans. In less than two hours we had witnessed a nice variety of wildlife and the dawn of a beautiful day.
Great Egret
Great Egrets
Oyster Catchers
Clapper Rail
female Red-winged Blackbird
Brown Pelicans
on 12 Jul 2008 at 2:15 pm 1.Susan said …
Wow~ These are beautiful! You must get up pretty early in the morning…
on 12 Jul 2008 at 9:55 pm 2.Pat said …
Those photos with the sun in the background are totally amazingly beautiful, Kevin! How nice that your son is okay with getting up early and doing that with you. I think I saw him pull up by your house from fishing… with a pretty good catch…. the day of the garden tour. If that was him, he was such a polite young man when dealing with the inquisitive people who surrounded him at that time to look at the fish he caught. Let’s hope he keeps being the captain of the boat so you can be free to get such terrific photos as the ones you got today!
Pat (2/1000)
on 14 Jul 2008 at 12:10 pm 3.Janet said …
Kevin,
These are beautiful and so inspirational. I love the Great Egret photos with the morning sun!
on 15 Jul 2008 at 6:16 pm 4.Christina said …
Hi Kevin,
You again amaze me beautiful shots. I really love the sun rise pictures tell your son he can bring me there whenever he would like. ( LOL )
on 16 Jul 2008 at 5:18 am 5.Kevin Fleming said …
OK, I will let him know…!