Tag Archives: Bombay-Hook-NWR

Quiet reflections

Black-necked Stilt searchng for a meal in the Shearness Pool at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, DE back on 8-16-2009. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site athttp://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/. For more information on Black-necked Stilts visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Fishing at first light

This is a derivative work based upon a Great Egret shot I took at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge back on 8-16-2009 and the following elements. A Creative Commons photo from Flickr user “Steve Took it” formed the basis of the background. Several background texture layers purchased from Distressed Textures were blended in order to try and...

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And out of the shadows a Fox Kit did emerge…

A Red Fox Kit (young Fox) emerges from the forest shadow and walks out onto the wildlife drive at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Smyrna, DE on Saturday afternoon. One of four Fox encounters I had during the day. These young ones have almost no fear of humans at all, which is seldom a...

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Look what Mommy brought me to eat !

A Red Fox Kit walks the rotting catfish that the Mother Fox brought him, back to the den to share with the other Kits. I watched as the Mother Fox carried this enormous rotting catfish all the way down the wildlife drive around Raymond Pool. She would go for a hundred feet then sit the...

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Gamera versus Bombay Hook NWR

I saw this Snapping Turtle on several different laps of the Raymond Pool loop at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday. When I took this photo, he was on the move heading up road against traffic, oblivious to the one way signs. With his massive size and prehistoric looks, he reminded me of the...

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Herbert often wondered whether or not he should have become an accountant like his Mother suggested

Great Blue Heron stops for a rest during a preening session on the end of Bear Swamp. From my Saturday morning 4-10-2010 trip to the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site athttp://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/. For more information on Great Blue...

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Great Egret in Flight

A Great Egret takes short repositioning flight over Raymond Pool at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware back on 7-18-2009. When they have too much competition for fish in one area they will often fly a hundred feet or so and start fishing again. When you get a couple hundred Egrets...

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