Pickney Wildlife Refuge Birds

If it weren't for some excess vegetation I would really like the image of a tricolor heron at the Pickney Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. Quite an amazing place. Next up is a green heron. Beautiful bird striking a good pose for the camera. The last is a great egret carrying a stick for a nest building project.

Another from Big Creek

Here is another from one of my favorite places in the Smokies the day after a night of heavy rainfall. What a great place.

Pickney Wildlife Refuge

Went to the Pickney Wildlife Refuge on the South Carolina coast yesterday. There were so many birds and one gator. The gator kinda startled me as I did not see it at first and it was close to the trail. Kinda makes you nervous being about 25 feet away from an alligator. Many of the birds were nesting and some had young birds. Unfortunately, I could not get a photo of the young birds.

Spring Flood on Big Creek

I was in the Smoky Mountains when the flooding hit Memphis and Nashville, TN, and the Smokies fortunately did not get the flooding rains. However, we did get a lot of rain and it was quite dramatic on one of the streams.

Cataloochee Cove

Thanks to our NANPA leader, Bill Lea, our group at Cataloochee Cove in the Smokies captured this image. I have even learned a couple of new techniques. One more Smokies shoot tomorrow morning. With our leader Donna Eaton, we found some amazing trilliums, and with Bell Campbell we found the painted trillum to be posted later. Some light does not faze me any more.

Day 2 Great Smoky Mountains

Two photos from the Smoky Mountains today. The photo of the trees was taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Nice that it shows that spring is on it's way, even in the higher elevations. The flower is a crested dwarf iris.

Great Smoky Mountains

Taken this afternoon in the Great Smoky Mountains. Yes, that is snow on the high peaks of Mt. LeConte. Gatlinburg is just to the left of the image. It is spring in the lower elevations and looks like the last of winter at the high elevations. Am here for a few days for a North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) workshop. Hope that I can get some good images.