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Specialization is not always aesthetically appealing to the generalist scavenging creatures who have so effectively taken over the planet – aka, all of us. For instance, despite my well-documented personal admiration for them, many people think that Black Skimmers look goofy. Ditto Roseate Spoonbills; ditto vultures of all kinds. Bird first, metaphor second. The same [...]

I know, I know, the cuteness lately is getting out of hand. First it was a bunch of baby waterfowl, then it was the baby Gadwall, then a variety of baby birds on the beach.  What can I say?  I am addicted to adorableness!  Besides, it takes a hard-hearted, callous, and cruel person to have [...]

Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches, that people can’t help but like.  They have awesome bills that slice through the water in search of fish, they bark like small dogs, they have a cool color scheme.  It is impossible not to be amazed by skimmers as they effortlessly glide over the [...]

In my last post, about the Great Egrets at the Marine Nature Study Area, I said that I would be doing a full post about the birding adventure that we had.  Well, I guess I’m a liar.  Going through the pictures I took (and I managed to fill up my camera) I realized that almost [...]