Category: Nature

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Begins with S

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This week’s challenge from Patti asks us to find images of objects that begins with the letter S. I chose a few objects found in or around sand or things that are made of sand.

Seashells and seals on the sandy seashore

Seashells on a Georgia seashore
Clam shell on sandy beach in Haines, Alaska
Harbor Seals on a sandy beach in Oregon
Hawaiian Monk Seal on Kauai’s North Shore in Hawaii

Sand Dunes

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

Many thanks to Patti for this week’s Lens Artists photo challenge #136: Things that begin with the letter S.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #135 – A Glimpse into my World

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Welcome to my world along the Georgia coast where I am surrounded by salt water creeks and rivers, salt marsh and a beach on the Atlantic Ocean is only a five minute drive away. Please join me for a glimpse of some of the natural beauty that is in my world.

Birds and Wildlife of Coastal Georgia:

Great Egret
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin near Tybee Island, Georgia
Wood Stork and Egret
Wood Stork with a face only a mother could love
Great blue heron in the salt marsh beside the trail
Roseate Spoonbill in Georgia Tidal Creek
Osprey looks over the salt marsh
Ibis
Hawk in coastal Georgia
Bald Eagle in coastal Georgia
Male Painted Bunting
Snowy Egret in the neighborhood
Diamondback Terrapin
Juvenile Horned Owl

Salt Marsh, Beaches, and Waterways

Sunrises and Sunsets

Sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunset over the Georgia Salt Marsh
Coastal Georgia Sunset

Flowers and critters in the garden

Mexican Sunflower
Summer Sunflower
Monarch Butterfly
Pair of Monarch Caterpillars on Milkweed
Gulf Fritillary
Zebra Longwing on Mexican Sunflower
Spring Azaleas
Spring Dogwood Bloom
Zinnia
Camellias blooming in February

Wild Georgia Shrimp and Georgia Blue Crabs fresh from the sea.

Many thanks to guest host Sheetal for this week’s Lens Artists photo challenge #135: a Glimpse of my World.

Bird Weekly Challenge #35: Birds I love

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I’m not a birder and don’t have a life list but I love all birds and I love to watch them doing what birds do. It’s always interesting to see a bird or a pair of birds on their nest or building their nest. It’s even more fun if there are chicks!

Eagle on nest, Haines, Alaska
Pair of Ospreys on the nest at Gulf Islands National Seashore at Ft. Pickens
Pair of Wood storks building nest at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
Great Egret with chicks at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge

Thank you Lisa. for this Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds I Love

Bird Weekly Challenge #33: Birds on a wire or fence

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This challenge reminded me of a Great Egret we saw perched on the end of a dock at an RV Park in Cedar Key, Florida more than a few years ago. It ignored me as it kept on preening and I kept snapping away.

After browsing through my archives I came up with few more birds that meet the challenge.

Great Blue Heron, Ft. Pickens National Seashore, Florida
Hawk on Fence in Coastal Georgia
Lark Sparrow – Montana
American White Pelicans and Cormorants – Texas Gulf Coast

Thank you Lisa. for this Bird Weekly Challenge: Birds on a wire or fence