Sometimes I turn around and into my line of sight, out of the fog, a great blue heron appears and reminds me of my long ago friend Stumpy....

There is nothing quite like having a 3.5 year-old bald eagle do a 90 degree turn far across the lake and make a bee-line for the shore...

I had been watching a great blue heron on the shoreline fishing. Suddenly the fish were forgotten as the great blue heron looked almost...

This lovely female bald eagle took less than the 30 seconds of this video to surely, swiftly fly past me.  What power!

Momma Belted Kingfisher was determined to get a fish and I was just as determined to photograph her fishing!

The pied-billed grebes have come in for the winter. The little grebe this morning decided to go fishing very close. They are very small...

I think Hershey makes an excellent emphatic feathered statement about sticking a landing, perfectly! #AmericanBaldEagle

These blue-winged teals zipped past me this morning. These migratory ducks and other waterfowl spend their winter with us. #BlueWingedTeal

The fledgling male osprey had caught a fish so big that even a mature female osprey (who are bigger than the males) would have had...

The osprey fledgling was on a branch about 50 feet above me on a tree only 30 feet away. When an osprey is that close to the water and...

A young sharp-shinned hawk takes the opportunity to chase an American crow. The hawk is pestering the crow. The crow is much bigger...

Ospreys often get rather messy down their chests when they are eating their fish. One way that an osprey can quickly clean his front is...

Against the sunrise softness flows the stiff shine of feathers and the sharpness of beak and talons. Purpose relentlessly driving the...

This youngster had his eye on the fish and successfully caught his mid-morning snack.

Hershey is up top and Godiva down below.

While on the Haw River above the main lake, a friend and I watched a pair of immature bald eagles practicing the maneuver known as a...

Jordan Lake: Osprey fledgling. This is the same bird that was in this morning's Natural Minute video. Thought y'all might like to see...

I was tracking a fish-carrying osprey with my camera when I realized there was a small bird also tracking the osprey. Hmmm. Too late in...

The osprey fledgling manages to catch a fish but has some trouble keeping it safe and secure where he can eat it.  This is the same...

Ospreys have very animated faces.  The fledglings get very expressive.  This one flew in and surveyed the scene, glanced at me and went...