Surf Scoter—SUSC
Regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast. I’ve seen them up and down the shore usually just a few at a time. In spite of their name, these birds tend to stay out on the ocean—given that they forage by diving, I would be more accurate writing, out on and in the ocean. Getting close up photos at the shore has proven difficult, particularly for the males. This photo of a male is heavily cropped.
Females have come closer both at the beach at Sandy Hook’s Parking Lot C and in the Manasquan Inlet.
This is a stub page; I’ll be adding more photographs with the stories of my encounters as soon as I can.
Surf Scoter—SUSC
Regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast. I’ve seen them up and down the shore usually just a few at a time. In spite of their name, these birds tend to stay out on the ocean—given that they forage by diving, I would be more accurate writing, out on and in the ocean. Getting close up photos at the shore has proven difficult, particularly for the males. This photo of a male is heavily cropped.
Females have come closer both at the beach at Sandy Hook’s Parking Lot C and in the Manasquan 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 Mar 16, 2021.