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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~ A. A. Milne
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
"May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace." ~ James Berlolino
BlackCrowned Night HeronHeronbirdSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaEmerald Islestocky birdPine Knoll Shores Waterwaygrayandblack plumagelongwhite head plumesocial birdsbreed in coloniesmost widespread heron in worldblack crownforagers in eveningroost and nest in groupswetland habitatfeed between evening and morningmonogamous
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Great Egret, breeding plumage ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
“On foot its movements are as graceful as those of the Louisiana Heron, its steps measured, its long neck gracefully retracted and curved, and its silk train reminded one of the flowing robes of the noble ladies of Europe. The train of this Egret ... makes its appearance a few weeks previous to the love season, continues to grow and increase in beauty, until incubation has commenced.” ~ John James Audubon
Great Egretbreeding plumageArdea albaSouthern Outer BanksNorth CarolinaAtlantic OceanBogue BanksBogue SoundEmerald IsleCrystal Coastbirdwingswhite
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." ~ Gibran
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sanderlings snoozing ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Poetry: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of wrongness all around." ~ Seamus Heaney
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Tricolored Heron (formerly, Louisiana Heron) ~ Egretta tricolor ~ Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge, Outer Banks
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bonaparte's Gull (adult in winter plumage) ~ Chroicocephalus philadelphia ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." ~ Martha Graham
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elegant Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you." ~ Walt Whitman
elegant Great EgretArdea albaOuter Banks
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." ~ Walt Whitman
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim." ~ Tyler Knott Gregson
It's not what you look at that mattersit's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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evening by the sea ~ Southern Outer Banks
"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea." ~ e. e. cummings
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River and Watershed
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Blue Jay by the river ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." ~ Stephen King
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Hooded Merganser ~ Lophodytes cucullatus ~ Huron River
"When your spirit cries for peace, come to a world of canyons deep in an old land; feel the exultation of high plateaus, the strength of moving waters, the simplicity of sand and grass, and the silence of growth." ~ August Fruge
Hooded MerganserNikon D7100Huron RiverMichiganbirdLophodytes cucullatusAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIwaterfowlduckcrested
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on the wing ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
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Downy, by the River ~ Picoides pubescens ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see." ~ C.S. Lewis
Picoides pubescensDowny WoodpeckerHuron RiverMichiganNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIwoodpeckerdownytreeclinging birdbird
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curious fawn ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"it appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for." ~ Virginia Woolf
fawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawncurious
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wild creature ~ Huron River Watershed
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
fawnHuron River WatershedNikon D7100deerMichiganAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR II
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curious doe with fawn ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay perching ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"When I have ceased to break my wings against the faultiness of things, and learned that compromises wait behind each hardly opened gate, when I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth." ~ Sara Teasdale
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pointing the way ~ Blue Jay in flight ~ Cyanocitta crostata ~ Lake Huron
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Northern Flicker ~ Colaptes auratus ~ Lake Huron
"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful ~ that will be my life." ~ Elsie de Wolfe
northern flickerMichiganLake HuronEast TawasNikon D7100Continental United StatesAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbirdColaptes auratuz
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on the wing again ~ Canada Geese ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
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Red-tailed Hawk, manteling ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." ~ Nancy Levin
redtailed hawkraptorMichiganbirdHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbird of prey
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Portrait of a Red-Tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak and stared with his foot on the prey." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~ Aristotle
redtailed hawkraptorMichiganbirdHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbird of prey
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis
"Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena." ~ John Burnside
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Tashunka Witko, better known as Crazy Horse, had a vision of a red-tailed hawk at Sylvan Lake, South Dakota. In his vision he saw himself riding a spirit horse, flying through a storm, as the hawk flew above him, shrieking. When he awoke, a red-tailed hawk was perched near his horse." ~ Michael R. Burch
redtailed hawkraptorMichiganbirdHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbird of preyButeo jamaicensis
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Red-tailed Hawk, manteling ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels." ~ Tennessee Williams
redtailed hawkraptorMichiganbirdHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbird of preyButeo jamaicensis
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Green Heron, Juvenile ~ Butorides virescens ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be. The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nikon D7100MichiganHuron River WatershedAFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIbirdGreen HeronButorides virescens
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four greylag geese a-swimming ~ Anser anser ~ Huron River, Michigan
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” ~ Jim Rohn
geeseswimmingMichiganContinental United StatesNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIHuron Rivergreylaganser anserducklike birdbird
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
“A picture is a secret about a secret ~ the more it tells you, the less you know.” ~ Diane Arbus..
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American Goldfinch ~ Spinus tristis ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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fawn ~ Alex Dow Field (Tall Grass Prairie), Nichols Arboretum, Michigan
“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to ‘give a meaning’ to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry – it is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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fawn with mom ~ Alex Dow Field (Tall Grass Prairie), Nichols Arboretum, Michigan
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
fawndeerMichiganContinental United StatesHuron River WatershedNikon D7100AFS Nikkor 70200mm f2.8G ED VR IIportrait of a fawnfaunacover
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Ring-billed Gull ~ Larus delawarensis ~ Lake Michigan
"Because, when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing." ~ unknown
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American Avocets, breeding plumage~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
“The principal and proper work of history being to instruct, and enable men by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present and providently in the future.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” ~ Elliott Erwitt
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana~ Great Lakes
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." ~ Socrates
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~ Buddha
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.” ~ Art Williams
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ Lake Michigan
"Everything you have in this world is only borrowed for a short time." ~ Welsh Proverb
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American Avocets, breeding plumage ~ Recurvirostra americana ~ solo road trip to Lake Michigan to visit with cousin and family ~ July 2014
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ~ Louisa May Alcott
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Gray Catbird ~ Dumetella carolinensis ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world." ~ Joanne Harris
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House Sparrow, Female ~ Passer domesticus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring enough worries of its own." ~ Matthew 6:34
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mulberry-hunting ~ Michigan
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts." ~ Charles Dickens
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