American waders
The photographs in this gallery were all taken on the east coast of America, in the state of Delaware. The photos were taken on and around the beaches of Delaware Bay, where tens of thousands of waders (shorebirds) gather each spring to fuel up on Horseshoe Crab eggs. The sight of
American fauna
The photographs in this gallery were all taken on the east coast of America, in the state of Delaware. The animals in this gallery are: Raccoon Procyon lotor Musk Rat Ondatra zibethicus Fox Vulpes vulpes Green Darner dragonfly Anax junius Diamondback Terrapin Malaclemys terrapin Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
American waterbirds
The photographs in this gallery were all taken on the east coast of America, in the state of Delaware. In order of appearance, the birds in the gallery are: Black Scoter Melanitta americana Black Skimmer Rynchops niger (three images) Sabine’s Gull Xema sabini (two images) Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus Double-crested Cormorant
American birds
The photographs in this gallery were all taken on the east coast of America, in the state of Delaware. The photos, in order of appearance, are of: American Robin Turdus migratorius Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major (two images) Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Osprey Pandion haliaetus (six images)
Horseshoe Crabs
The photographs in this gallery are of Horseshoe Crabs Limulus polyphemus and their eggs. These images were taken in Delaware Bay, home to the largest population of the American species of Horseshoe Crab (three other species exist in coastal waters between Japan and Indonesia). As the tide comes in on moonlit nights
Hummingbirds
The photographs in this album are of a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris. The species is found in eastern North American and across the Canadian prairies. Ruby-throated Hummingbird feed on the nectar of red and orange tubular flowers and insects. They will also feed on sugar water provided at hummingbird feeders, as in