Last Sunday morning’s weather was perfect!!! At 9 a.m. it was 72 degrees with no humidity….. in SC…. in August!!! Really? Yes, indeed! Rob, the dogs and I piled into the golf cart and made our way down to the 17th hole of the golf course to enjoy a walk along the cart path before […]
Category Archives: Wood Stork
More at the Rookery • Wood Storks, Anhinga and White Ibis
Back view of a Wood Stork tending eggs in its nest. I treated myself and spent the good part of last Saturday at the rookery on Spring Island. I arrived at 11 a.m. and didn’t leave until 4 p.m.! I toted my birding scope and camp stool to a wonderfully shady spot and set up […]
Rookery Snippets
On May 14th, I spent about an hour at the rookery sketching while looking through my birding scope and a lot of time just observing the Wood Storks, Great Egrets and Anhinga. I witnessed storks on the ground playing tug-a-war with a large stick. The winner flew off with it, landed in a large pine […]
Fast Sketching at a Rookery
The rookery on Spring Island is humming, or should I say, clacking right along. When I arrived all I could hear was the clacking of the Wood Storks bills. They decorated the tops of the trees while nesting egrets were sprinkled in the lower vegetation. Please forgive the poor quality of my sketch images. I […]
Wood Storks Nesting
Ever since I saw my first Wood Stork I’ve wanted to observe, sketch and photograph them throughout their nesting cycle. This year I got my wish 🙂 For the first time ever recorded, Wood Storks chose to nest on Spring Island! Yeah! They’re relatively close by and I have access! My first trip to check […]
Wood Stork 2
I think ‘Flaps Down’ would be a good title for this. How about you? This is the image for the back of the T shirt. They should be printed and ready by the end of the month. I’ll post the finished product then.
