Common Eider—COEI
Regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast. I’ve seen them up and down the shore usually in flocks ranging from a few to scores. They often gather at inlets and at outflow pipes, but I have sometimes seen them very close to the beach at otherwise featureless stretches of the shore.
My earliest photo of a small flock of males and females dates from December, 2014 in the ocean at the Barnegat Lighthouse inlet.
This is a stub page; I’ll be adding more photographs with the stories of my encounters as soon as I can.
Common Eider—COEI
Regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast. I’ve seen them up and down the shore usually in flocks ranging from a few to scores. They often gather at inlets and at outflow pipes, but I have sometimes seen them very close to the beach at otherwise featureless stretches of the shore.
My earliest photo of a small flock of males and females dates from December, 2014 in the ocean at the Barnegat Lighthouse inlet.
This is a stub page; I’ll be adding more photographs with the stories of my encounters as soon as I can.
Lightbox Gallery of Great Horned Owl photographs.
Back view of a Great Horned Owl that had just flown across my path to perch on this branch.
The bird immediately looked over its shoulder to check me out givng me the chance to capture its face.
This is a tighter crop of the previous image. The bird clearly decided I was a threat and it should move on.
This was the third shot taken in quick succession as the bird turned its head prior to flying off.
Pentax K-3 with 300 mm lens augmented by the 1.4x teleconverter, f/8 at 1/1000th second, iso 1,000. Post-processed using Adobe Lightroom.
This page last updated Feb 21, 2021.