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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...." C. S. Lewis
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White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I turn my heart to the light and receive its beauty and nourishment. I turn my heart to the shadows as they reveal hues, shades and textures that contrast the light. I turn my heart to them both and embrace their gifts, for they have graced me with blessings untold.” ~ Kristin Granger
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Great Egret, in flight ~ Ardea alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
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White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"We are always the same age inside." ~ Gertrude Stein
White IbisEudocimus albusSouthern Outer BanksmarshCrystal CoastNorth CarolinaBogue BanksEmerald Islebirdinflightbirdsky
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Great Blue Heron ~ Ardea herodias ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the quiet morning." ~ Mimi Fariña, sister of Joan Baez
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Brown Pelican ~ Pelecanus occidentalis ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the midst of winter, I found that there lies, within me, an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus
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Willet ~ Tringa semipalmata ~ Southern Outer Banks
"In the end, we all become stories." ~ Margaret Atwood
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flying White Ibis ~ Eudocimus albus ~ Southern Outer Banks
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” ~ François Rabelais
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Maui ~ Ebony-spotted Oriental Shorthair
"Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious cat
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them
I just am....forever and ever and ever."
~ *Poem for Cats,* author unknownFrom *master gallery
Maui, our beautiful Oriental Shorthair
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
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Portrait of Maui
"Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it." ~ Rod McKuen
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Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me." ~ Steve Miller
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American Kestrel ~ Falco sparverius ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Swift on the wing, powerful flight I soar, my tail spread wide I fly for freedom, I fly for life, on feathered wings I glide. I am Kestrel, the flyer, the soarer..... Prettiest of the Falcon blood, I have not a blue-bird's song and beauty, nor a Swan's long-necked grace. I am Kestrel, the proud, the beautiful, I am a Falcon, I am a Hawk...." ~ Erin Mazur
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Broad-winged Hawk ~ Buteo platypterus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas.... rest your spirit in her solitary places." ~ Henry Beston
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 2nd road trip for birding festival ~ September 2015
"If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed." ~ Japanese proverb
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rivers in late summer ~ Huron River
"I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers." ~ Charles Kuralt
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." ~ Charles Lindbergh
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 1st road trip for birding festival with instructor and class ~ September 2015
"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." ~ James Audubon
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Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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mute swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
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Mallard ducklings in a row ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius
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Red-winged Blackbird, Female ~ Agelaius phoeniceus ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." ~ e. b. White
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Mallard mom and her family of ducklings ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” ~ Aaron Rose
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Mute Swan and the River ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
“The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.” ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
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Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." W. B. Yeats
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Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The photo is the hunt. It’s the instinct of hunting without the desire to kill. It’s the hunt of angels… you track, you aim, you fire and-click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal." - Chris Marker
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Common Loon, liftoff ~ Gavia immer ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back." ~ Katherine Hepburn, "On Golden Pond"
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Wild Laughter of the Loon ~ Hancock Pond, Maine
"No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, wild laughter of the loon." ~ Celia Thaxter
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Blue Jay ~ Cyanocitta cristata ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." ~ Terry Tempest Williams
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polar bear, enjoying his swim
"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us." ~ Leo Tolstoy
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American Flamingo ~ Phoenicopterus ruber
"Beauty lingers somewhere in the twilight, waiting for us to find it, never quite ready to have its picture taken." Jim Richardson, National Geographic Photographer
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Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." ~ W.B. Yeats
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The Royal Tern Trio ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To make living itself an art, that is the goal." ~ Henry Miller
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Royal Tern ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Northern Mockingbird ~ Mimus polyglottos ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso
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Pileated Woodpecker ~ Dryocopus pileatus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Stories never really end... even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories alway go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." ~ Cornelia Funke
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Royal Tern in Flight ~ Thalasseus maximus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole." ~ Oscar Wilde
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Sanderlings ~ Calidris alba ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." ~ Margaret Atwood
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings...” ~ J. M. Barrie
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ~ I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost
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Forster's Tern ~ Sterna forsteri ~ Southern Outer Banks
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." ~ Lewis Carroll
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Tree Swallow ~ Tachycineta bicolor ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." ~ unknown
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double-crested cormorant ~ Southern Outer Banks
"the earth has music for those who listen." ~ Shakespeare
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." ~ unknown
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Southern Outer Banks
"the meaning of life is to find your gift. the purpose of life is to give it away." ~ William Shakespeare
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Double-crested Cormorant ~ Phalacrocorax auritus ~ Pine Knoll Waterway, Southern Outer Banks
"In the Greek tale of Ulysses, after a storm broke the mast of Ulysses' raft, a sea nymph disguised herself as a cormorant and handed Ulysses a girdle to keep him afloat while he swam to shore." ~ https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/subjects/literature/what-does-the-cormorant-bird-symbolize-in-mythology
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron ~ Nycticorax nycticorax ~ Southern Outer Banks
“How often, in the gathering dusk of evening, have we heard its loud, choking squawk and, looking up, have seen its stocky form, dimly outlined against the gray sky and propelled by steady wing beats, as it wings its way high in the air toward its evening feeding place in some distant pond or marsh!” ~ Arthur Bent
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