Favorite Photos
 

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Golden Silk Spider
Opuntia -- probably a form of O. engelmanii
Juvenile Northern Gannet literally talking to me
The king of the beach, the Great black-backed gull
Wood stork landing
Caspian terns courting
Fishing at dawn at the Sunset Beach bridge
fishermen and a gull all waiting for higher tide
   
Karen and Steve from Maryland, master sand castle builders
Pampas Grass just before sundown
Seabeach Amaranth on Bird Island, a threatened species
Gaillardia
Gaillardia pulchella, a cultivar
Doppler, the dog at the Ocean Isle Beach Fishing Center
Goats on the Sunset Beach dredge spoil island
They call the shots.
   
Octopus vulgaris
Live knobbed whelk, probably subspecies Keiner's whelk
   
Stone crabs
Beach textures
Squawking
A bad hair day
Live Giant Atlantic Cockle
Sea Star
Frank Greear from Tennessee
Children on the beach
Octopus vulgaris
Laughing Gull with Cheeto
Dolphin playing
Pelican along for the ride
Anoles mating
Ray Williams feeding gulls Cheetos on Sunset Beach
Fishing at sunset
Beach Life
Feeding Cheetos to gulls on the ferry to Ft. Fisher
Coming for a Cheeto
Great Blue Heron
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican
Terns and Brown Pelican
Laughing Gull
Peregrine Falcon with prey
Squirrel Sex
Rufous Hummingbird, August 2006, wintering in my yard for the third consecutive year
   
Water Lily at the Ft. Fisher Aquarium
Sunflowers planted by NC DOT
   
Sunset Beach Sunset
Bewitched after shower