salt marsh – Wandering Dawgs

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – A Glimpse into my World

February 19, 2021Posted in Birds, Georgia, Nature, Photography, Sunrise, SunsetTagged A Glimpse of My World, Atlantic Ocean, beach, Favorite Place, home, Lens-Artists, salt marsh38 Comments

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:

Salt Marsh, Beaches, and Waterways

Sunrises and Sunsets

Flowers and critters in the garden

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 #20: In Your Yard or Garden

October 27, 2020Posted in Birds, Nature, PhotographyTagged backyard birds, birdweekly, Coastal Georgia, In your yard or garden, Photo Challenge, salt marsh18 Comments

I have to admit I spend a lot of time in my backyard watching and photographing the birds. Here are a few of my favorites.

This great egret landed in our yard one day

We also are lucky to see wading birds in the salt marsh behind our house. I’ll often run grab my camera to capture them when they land on one of the docks.

Thank you Lisa. for this Bird Weekly challenge. Her original post is Bird Weekly Challenge #20: In your Yard or Garden

Lens-Artists #98: Delicate Colors

May 28, 2020Posted in Photography, SunriseTagged Delicate Colors, Everglades, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, salt marsh16 Comments

This week Ann-Christine has challenged us to feature delicate colors.

For this challenge I browsed through my archives and chose these images that show delicate colors of the sky.

20120118PMPa-Hay-Otee-(2) — Blue sky over the everglades

20191226-Morning-Walk-(3) — Blue sky over salt marsh

20180214Okefenokee-Boat-Tour-(102) — Blue sky in the Okefenokee Swamp

20181020-Tybee-Sunrise-and-beach-walk-(20) — Sunrise at the beach

Thank you to Ann-Christine for this weeeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Delicate Colors

October in Coastal Georgia

October 29, 2019Posted in Birds, Butterflies, Flowers, Georgia, Nature, SunriseTagged autumn, Butterfly Garden, Coastal Georgia, Georgia on my mind, Gulf Fritillary, Ibis, salt marsh, White Ibis15 Comments

October is one of my favorite months in coastal Georgia. The weather is finally cooling off, the sunrises and sunsets are gorgeous, and you never know what birds will show up to feed in the marsh.

I’ve been seeing gorgeous morning skies at sunrise.

20191017-Morning-Sky-(5) — Coastal Georgia Sunrise

The cooler temperatures are perfect for taking a morning walk.

20191005-Span-Ham-Morning-(8) — Coastal Georgia Salt Marsh

I need to clean out the dying plants from my butterfly garden but I decided to wait before pulling them up. As long as there are butterflies stopping by for some nourishment the plants will stay.

20190911-Fritillary-(10) — Gulf Fritillary on Mexican Sunflower

Large flocks of White Ibis have been feeding in the salt marsh around our neighborhood.

20191021-Ibis-(34) — Juvenile White Ibis

Meanwhile, Back Home in Georgia

July 11, 2019Posted in Birds, Flowers, GeorgiaTagged boating, Butterfly Garden, Coastal Georgia, Great Egret, salt marsh, summer, summer blooms, zinnias16 Comments

It seems like we’ve been going non stop since we returned from our trip to Ireland and Scotland on May 23. Once I got caught up on laundry and got over the jet lag, I’ve been able to enjoy the summer.

With very little rain while we were on our trip, my garden was suffering when we got home. After a few days of digging in the dirt and a little watering, it is now thriving.

Zinnia

Daylily

Fiddler Crab on milkweed

Zinnias in the butterfly garden

Zinnia

Some days are perfect for a boat ride.

20190707-Sandbar-with-Bela-(32) — Driftwood on a Georgia sandbar

The hummingbirds come by each day and a painted bunting bunting pair and other small birds come by the feeder regularly. Wading birds are frequent visitors in the neighborhood.

20190704-Egret-Catalina-(21)-wide — Great Egret

Have a great summer!