These are some birds I photographed during the summer 2017, mostly in midcoast Maine. There were loons at Damariscotta Lake, shorebirds and wading birds at Popham Beach, Weskeag Marsh, and Pine Point / Scarborough. I have also included three photos of an uncommon Least bittern seen at Parker River NWR, Plum Island, northeast Massachusetts.
Sitting at the foot of the Big Daddy sand dune, Deadvlei is an otherworldly place of ancient skeletal camel thorn trees, sun-blackened but not decayed because of the extremely low humidity. The last rain was 21 years ago and even then it was only a few millimeters. These trees are frozen in time into shapes both tortured and graceful. The white clay floor of this pan forms into round shapes that look much like blood cells. It is a photographer's paradise.
This gallery is a glimpse of nature in the State of Maine, as seen through my lens. This collection of 24 photographs is on exhibit, October 2015, at the Logan County Library, Russellville, Kentucky. It includes birds, lighthouses, coastlines, blueberries, lobsters, wildflowers, moose, windjammers, and much more.
Keith Carver graduated from Russellville High School in 1958. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, and has enjoyed nature and bird photography since his retirement ten years ago.
This beautiful Snowy Owl was perched on a hummock close to an icy farm road just north of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. It was January 15, 2014. The owl had been there for three weeks, but had never before approached the road this closely. This is an immature bird but I can't tell from the markings whether it is male or female.