White-Winged Scoter—WWSC
This regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast proved to be the most elusive of the three Scoter species. It wasn’t until February 2016 that I finally saw one, when a solitary male suddenly appeared in the ocean on the north side of the Manasquan River Inlet. It was as though it deliberately approached me for a photograph and then went on its merry way.
More recently I’ve had some very good looks at both males and females at Sandy Hook’s Parking Lot C.
This is a stub page; I’ll be adding more photographs with the stories of my encounters as soon as I can.
White-Winged Scoter—WWSC
This regular winter visitor to the waters off the New Jersey coast proved to be the most elusive of the three Scoter species. It wasn’t until February 2016 that I finally saw one, when a solitary male suddenly appeared in the ocean on the north side of the Manasquan River Inlet. It was as though it deliberately approached me for a photograph and then went on its merry way.
More recently I’ve had some very good looks at both males and females at Sandy Hook’s Parking Lot C.
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 7, 2021.