Piping Plovers

Piping Plovers are small, pale shorebirds with yellow legs, creamy white chests and a single dark band at the throat.

Photographing Shorebirds at Eye Level

By |2021-05-17T07:15:37-06:00April 6th, 2018|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Black-bellied Plovers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Yellowlegs, Long-billed Curlews, Marbled Godwits, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers, Ruddy Turnstones|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Taking photographs of shorebirds at eye level was very fulfilling for me and the images that resulted from my down & dirty technique have always made me feel an intimate connection to the birds.

A morning spent at Fort De Soto six years ago today

By |2020-11-06T05:54:28-07:00September 4th, 2014|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Black Skimmers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers, Sandwich Terns, Semipalmated Plovers, Wood Storks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Six years ago this morning I was photographing birds at Fort De Soto County Park and I wanted to share a few images and memories of that day.

Sidelit Piping Plover

By |2016-12-07T12:13:41-07:00May 15th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Low angle, Piping Plovers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This Piping Plover image reminds me to try to photograph birds in other than perfect light. Sidelit and backlit images can be spectacular so I don't like passing up taking the chance that I might just get a great shot despite what some photographers think of as bad light.

Piping Plover – Down & Dirty

By |2023-03-01T08:25:57-07:00March 1st, 2012|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Piping Plovers nest in shallow scrapes in sand, gravel, salt flats or dunes which leaves their nests vulnerable to predators and in danger of being accidentally stepped on.

Piping Plover and Semipalmated Plover – Sunday Shorebirds

By |2024-01-07T02:56:49-07:00December 4th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Low angle, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

When I am out in the field I take a large amount of photos and there are times I don't get around to processing them until much later, these are two such images taken at Fort DeSoto, Florida in 2008.

Shorebirds of Fort DeSoto – The Plovers

By |2022-03-27T07:12:33-06:00October 16th, 2010|Categories: Black-bellied Plovers, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Killdeer, Pinellas County, Piping Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, Snowy Plovers, Wilson's Plovers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Throughout the year you can see and photograph many different species of Plovers on Fort De Soto’s beaches, tidal lagoons and spartina marshes.

Birds with bands

By |2022-11-09T03:06:45-07:00September 6th, 2010|Categories: Birds, Florida, Piping Plovers, Red Knots, Roseate Spoonbills|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

As a bird photographer it can some times be disheartening when you have great light, a wonderful setting and a beautiful specimen of a bird in front of your lens when you see the "jewelry" (bands) that some birds will be wearing.

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