Shorebirds in flying clusters @ St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Kayaker in the morning fog @ Sea Pines Forest Preserve on Hilton Head Island
Black Skimmer and other shorebirds @ Harbor Island, South Carolina
Low tide on a Hunting Island sand bank
Dunlin shorebirds resting at high tide
Sunrise At the Atlantic Ocean on Hunting Island, South Carolina
Sanderling, shorebirds resting in the Spartina Grass detritus @ Hunting Island
black and white version: Osprey preparing to land
South Carolina Spartina grass salt marsh at the Whale Branch river
While Pelican resting on a marsh island in Merritt Island, Florida
Ruddy Turnstone, shorebirds resting at the Haulover Canal at Merritt Island National Park, Florida
Live Oak tree grove @ Pigeon Point Park, Beaufort, South Carolina
Great Egret Lifts off in Salt Marsh
A marsh Island in South Carolina
Female Hooded Merganser reflections
Pre-dawn sun at the Atlantic ocean
Bald Cypress swamp
American Alligator headed to the water
Shrimper's trawling offshore in the Atlantic ocean in pre-dawn light
Eastern Kingsnake coiled
eastern Ratsnake
Eastern Copperhead
Tree Swallow resting on Cat tails
Aerial view of Shrimp boat at dock in South Carolina
rare snow in the Cypress swamp At Summertion, South Carolina
Wild horses at Rachel Carson preserve, North Carolina
Wild horses and White Ibis at Rachel Carson preserve, North Carolina
Red Fox in beachfront dunes @ Duck, North Carolina
Family of Red Fox in beachfront dunes @ Duck, North Carolina
Dolphin Strand feeding in Beaufort County
Spartina grass islands in the St. Helena Sound
Shrimp at dock - Gay's Fish Company on St Helena Island
Sunset from Pigeon point in Beaufort, South Carolina
Atlantic Ghost Crab portrait
Shrimp boat headed home with catch
early morning shrimper head out to sea in the Atlantic
Sanderling surf chasers
Winter time Spartina marsh grass view
Beach Dunes @ Caper's Island
Sunrise over Pinckney Island, South Carolina
American Alligator watching
Coastal Whitetail Buck @ the Savannah wildlife refuge
Clapper Rail with chick in Spartina detritus
Peregrine Falcon perched and watchfull
Endangered Red Knot in flight at Kiawah Island
Osprey with fish in flight
Sandbar landscape at low-tide at Atlantic in South Carolina
Sandbar landscape at low-tide at Atlantic in South Carolina in winter with rainbow
Great Egret flying with nesting material
Glossy Ibis feeding
Male Hooded Merganser swimming
Female Hooded Merganser swimming
Osprey flying with nesting material
Osprey flying with nesting material
White Pelican in flight, overhead
Royal Tern flying with fish
Brown Pelican and offshore Shrimp boat
Dolphin Strandings small bait fish in the back waters
Black Skimmer in formation flight
Shrimpers return Home in the morning fog
Group of Dolphin surface
"Little Blue" last sea cabin standing at Hunting Island State Park
Oyster Catcher feeding in the oysters
Dolphin surfing the bow wake of a shrimp boat
Water patterns of the Broad river Bridge
Dolphin calf beside it's mother
Dolphin fluke under the Broad River Bridge, Beaufort, South Carolina
White Pelican at Tomkins Island Seabird rookery
Dolphin breach beside the boat
Rhesus Monkey at Morgan Island in St. Helena sound
Shrimpers headed out in the early morning st St. Helena sound
Bald Eagle nest @ Pinckney National Wildlife Refuge
Blue Cypress lake, Florida cypress tree sunrise
Shrimpers repairing the rig in early morning st St. Helena sound
Blue Cypress lake, Florida cypress trees and birds
Cedar Tree at Wigeon Point
Shrimp boat and Cockspur lighthouse @ Tybee Island
Bone-yard beach @ Hunting Island at dawn
shorebirds in flight at sunrise
Black Skimmer and the front line waterfront hunes of Harbor Island
Osprey adult feeds chick in nest at Blue Cypress lake
Winter Outings / Nesting Eagles and wintering Seabirds + Dolphin activity
Filled with photo opportunities from the nesting Bald Eagles to all the wintering seabirds from waterfowl to seabirds like the Horned Grebe and the Common Loon and, of course the Bottlenose Dolphin
Spring Shorebird Migrations / April - May 15th
April begins the spring shorebird migrations which last through May. On my tours we will focus on these thousands of birds in flight and feeding in the salt marshes.
Seabird Nesting / May 15 thru July
These tours happen at three separate locations The Charleston Harbor (Crab bank & Castle Pinckney), Deveaux Bank (at the mouth of the Edisto River) and Tomkins Island off Turtle Island between Daufuski and Tybee Island.
Shrimp boats and Shorebirds +++(wading birds, birds of prey, dolphin)
During my seasonal tours we spend anywhere from 30 minutes to and hour following the boats. I keep the boat beside the nets opening. And when the dolphins breach for air, they surface right beside the boat.
Dolphin Backwater behavior Tours / August thru October (+ images from anytime tours)
As their food sources move around the sea and inland waterways, the dolphins are there. In late summer, early fall we find them up in the small creeks feeding on small schooling bait fish and other times in the inlets or open ocean.
Morgan Island/ includes: Rhesus Monkeys, shore and wading birds + Dolphin
Morgan Island is home to 350+ Rhesus Monkeys visible from a boat
Fall Shorebirds & Shrimp boats / Sept & October
During my fall tours we spend anywhere from 30 minutes to and hour following the boats. I keep the skiff beside the nets opening. Doing so allows us great photo opportunities as the dolphins breach for air, right beside us.