Phil Lanoue Photography » Bird Photography

Even though we’re closing in on December, we still have a few spoonbills hanging around the salt marsh. They have been seen in among the assorted remaining wood storks, but here’s one juvenil...

https://phillanoue.com/2022/11/30/still-here-3/

Well, the white pelicans are in and as usual they are dividing into little groups to fish the marsh pond area.  At one point, a great blue heron came gliding in and almost clipped the head of th...

https://phillanoue.com/2022/11/29/hey-pal-watch-your-feet/

Yesterday we stopped over to the salt marsh just to see if anything was going on. The tide was fairly high so not optimal conditions for many of the wading birds. Although a few of the usual susp...

https://phillanoue.com/2022/10/28/misty-morning/

Earlier this morning we saw a snowy egret enjoying an early trip to his favorite dining spot, the salt marsh. On this day however, the only item on the menu was shrimp. But this plucky snowy know...

https://phillanoue.com/2022/08/17/shrimp-for-breakfast/

For the past few years we have been receiving fairly regular December visits by the white pelicans. They can and will arrive at other times of the year, but the marsh pond in December seems to be...

https://phillanoue.com/2021/12/10/december-pelicans/

Earlier I was watching this adult brown pelican flying circles around the marsh area during high tide. I waited for a bit until the big guy came gliding in right toward me just above the water le...

https://phillanoue.com/2021/08/09/gliding-in/

I did a quick stop over by the salt marsh this morning and there was a pretty good crowd of the usual suspects in the area. Great blue and great white egrets, white ibis, a ton of wood storks and...

https://phillanoue.com/2021/08/05/quiet-morning/

We have had several of our pink visitors coming and going in the area the past month or so, and you never know where they will show up. Earlier we caught this one just as he was coming in for a l...

https://phillanoue.com/2021/07/29/summer-spoonbills/

The beach and salt marsh area had only been opened by the state about two weeks, and after hearing reports of Roseate Spoonbill sightings we had to head over and check out the scene. Well there w...

https://phillanoue.com/2020/06/06/spoonies-are-back/

We still have a good size number of wood storks feeding and roosting in and around the salt marsh area. Here is a portion of one group converging on a seafood feast along with a few egrets at low...

https://phillanoue.com/2019/10/03/coming-and-going/