Posts in Category: marsh
September Marsh
Great Blue Heron: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — Another beauty of the September marsh shot, this time featuring a Great Blue Heron. This one has it all (almost). Green and gold grasses, red Saltwort, yellow Goldenrod, and the stately heron overlooking it all. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — One of the Snow Egrets (of which numbers are increasing finally) got up and flew around me toward the other side of the marsh. I was ready for it, more or less. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm equivalent. Program with action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Marsh
Snowy Egret: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025–the marshes in southern Maine are never more beautiful to my eye than in early fall when the saltwort (or glasswort) turns bright red against the greens and golds of the grasses and the reeds. Add a Snowy Egret in flight with open wings…and there’s an image worth looking at. I think. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — while looking for Egrets in the marsh, this very active Eastern Phoebe came for a visit…or, I suppose, it was really me visiting his territory, which, for whatever reason, he is still defending well after nesting season. That’s Phoebes for you. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Egret
Great Egret: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — Still not nearly the number of Egrets, neither Snowy or Great, as we had last year. I suspect the little brine shrimp or whatever they eat in the tide pools did not hatch out this year because of our drought. We will have to wait until next year to see if this is a permanent change, or a temporary setback or some of both. Either way I am always pleased to see such a handsome bird. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent and cropped. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. (Highlight metering). Processed in Photomator.
Egrets
Great Egrets: Kennebunk Bridle Path, Kennebunk, Maine, USA July 2015 — I thought these egrets were too far away but, hey, it is only bound electrons, so nothing ventured, nothing gained. And then they did this. I love spread wing shot and none so much as the Great Egret wings. So these two shots, offered as one, just or more fun. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent (and heavily cropped). Program mode with bird and wildlife modifications. Highlight metering. Processed in Photomator. Assembled in FrameMagic.
Seaside Dragons in love
Seaside Dragonlet mating wheels. Kennebunk, Maine, USA, July 2025 — Down by the Bridle Path through the tidal marsh the Seaside Dragonlets were bush mating and ovipositing. There must have been a dozen pairs in the one small pool I observed. Busy busy. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my insect and action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Tree Swallows
Tree Swallows: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, July 2025 — There were 4 swallow on the branch when I lifted the camera, and then this happened 🙂 Thankfully the Program choose a shutter speed of 1/1000th so I got the shot. 🙂 Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm. Program with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Pretty as a picture
Eastern Kingbird: Kennebunk, Maine, July 2025 — If you follow my work (play 🙂 you have seen this Eastern Kingbird before. It has taken the territory that belonged to an Eastern Phoebe for many years along one of our marsh paths. This is just (to my eye) a pretty picture. I like the bird. I like the pose. I really like the weathered wood of the stump and its bold form, and I like the background of mottled brown and green. It does not say much about anything, but it is pretty. And maybe that’s enough. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400. Program mode. Processed in Photomator.
Singer in the stones
Song Sparrow: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, June 2025 — This pair of Song Sparrows were evidently hunting insects or some other small invertebrate in the stones under the bridge over the tidal creek on our local path through the marsh. I was on the bridge. 🙂 Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.