More photos from the Bolivar Peninsula (TX) - April 2023

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Scarlet Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager

Tree Swallow

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Blackburnian Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Kentucky Warbler

White-tailed Kite

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Black-bellied Plover

Ruddy Turnstone

Brown Pelican

American Avocets

Brown Pelican

American Avocets

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.