Photo of a red cardinal with black highlights around its eyes perched on a branch amid a snowstorm, with blurred snowflakes dotting the scene and wintry background terrain.

Photo of a red cardinal with black highlights around its eyes perched on a branch amid a snowstorm, with blurred snowflakes dotting the scene and wintry background terrain.

Two Thursdays ago winter gave us one last gasp with a snow squall leaving one inch on the ground...which quickly melted. The hungry cardinals flocked to our feeder, waiting their turn on nearby branches. Nothing looks quite so striking as cardinal red against the snowscape.

#VAWildlife #Birds

Marco the Handsome #happy #crows #VAwildlife

Beautiful white deer in my neighborhood 😀 #happy #VAwildlife

Found a female dobsonfly at the bottom of a flower pot the other day. She had passed on but what a cool creature. Penny for scale.

#blueridgeVA #VAwildlife #verybigbug

An adult Bald Eagle calling to one of its immature offspring while flying along the shoreline of Jamestown Island.

#birds #VAWildlife #nature #raptor #birdwatching #wildlife

Great blue heron taking flight

Great morning on the water. Managed to catch this Great Blue Heron leaping out of the water and flying off.

#birds #heron #nature #wildlife #vawildlife

Chesapeake Bay Ospreys Are Facing Persistent Nest Failures Fifty years after the DDT era, Ospreys have rebounded strongly across the continent. But in the Chesapeake Bay, industrial fishing may be contributing to an extended run of failed nests.

Osprey nests on the Chesapeake Bay are failing, and scientists are trying to figure out why... Carrie Arnold's article includes my latest photos for Living Bird. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/chesape...

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A semi-sociable Barred Owl enjoying the warmer weather.

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This was a black bear that decided to raid our peach tree
last summer. We see them come through, periodically. This one was right outside our window in our driveway. Wasn’t as shy as the others. #blackbear #swva #virginiamountains #wildlife #bearsofbluesky #vawildlife

Northern Flicker posing for me after the snow

#bird #birdphotography #birding #northernflicker #snow #nature #omdsystem #backyardbirds #flicker #birdwatching #vawildlife #winterphotography #winter #winter2025

A small crab raises its enlarged claw. The crab's body is mostly blue and yellow, with reddish orange arms speckled with black, and yellow claws.

#Crustmas Season is upon us.

I photographed this little #AtlanticSandFiddlerCrab during a quick trip down to #ChincoteagueNWR in May.

#crab #wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #canon
#bigmeatyclaw #beach #canonwildlife
#VAwildlife #fiddlercrab #assateague
#chincoteague #tinycrab #beachlife