Mini Photo Gathering In Carteret County

[Speed]

way too late in the day to start

your gulls are ring-billed gulls

not bad either !

What can I say? We're dedicated, not fanatical. :-O

We were primarily after landscape type shots. Boats on the creek, waterfront shots, and hoping to catch a shot at one of the wild horses. If we were heading into the woods for birding, we would have been on station between 5:00 and 5:30 am. (I know, still too late, but like I said, we're not fanatical.)

Thank you for the ID on the gulls. I knew they were gulls, and I knew better than to call them "sea gulls", (thanks to my birding friend in NJ!), but I wasn't sure what kind they were. I was hoping to catch some shots of some egrets and pelicans as well, but it wasn't to be.

Thank you for the comments my friend!

[paulnj]

yeah ...I always wanted to go to chincoteague and play the ponies

http://wildlifewatcher.com/se/chinco.phtml

[walterick]

done that

Cool shots, Speed-O! I had that same lens for awhile when I worked for Ritz.
Rick

[Speed]

done that

Cool shots, Speed-O! I had that same lens for awhile when I worked for Ritz.
Rick

Did you lay on the ground to take that?!

Great angle, great catch!

[Speed]

yeah ...I always wanted to go to chincoteague and play the ponies

http://wildlifewatcher.com/se/chinco.phtml

Come down to Carteret County! Here are a couple of shots from Shackleford Banks. The ponies there are decendants from survivors of Spanish shipwrecks back in the 1600's. The Park Service does a roundup every year, and they count how many are there, and check them all for their health status.

It is an awesome sight watching a stallion steer his herd down the beach. It's funny seeing them run between beachgoers, and seeing a backdrop of motorboats behind them.

All these shots were taken with a Coolpix 5700. The third one is lousy photographically, but it shows the boats over on Shackleford on the 3rd of July. As you can tell, it doesn't bother the ponies.