Piping Plover chick silhouette - New Jersey
Few days old Piping Plover chick exploring the beach at sunrise:
Piping Plover chick with a rising sun behind it showing off its down feathers - New Jersey
Even though this particular beach wasn’t as productive as I had originally hoped, after finding a lone family of Piping Plovers with just hatched chicks, I decided to come back again but this time before the sunrise to try to photograph it as the sun was coming up. It was a huge gamble as there was no guarantee that I will find them 24 hours later. There was no guarantee that the chicks will be cooperative enough to walk on the beach at sunrise, on and on and on 😜 As you can see, taking risks sometimes pays off as I got a photo that I had envisioned the day before🤩
Something I didn’t realize before is how “hairy” these young birds really are 😂 The backlit scene shows off the fuzz of their down feathers pretty well, don’t you think? 😍
Vertical crop of a fuzzy Piping Plover ( Charadrius melodus ) chick on the beach - New Jersey
One thing I cannot decide is which crop I like the most.
Which crop do you prefer?
To me each one is unique on its own…
Close-up of a one day Piping Plover chick - NJ shore
I’ve never realized how fuzzy/hairy these chicks are until I photographed them with a light behind them 🤩
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Osprey aka fish hawk flying off with a just caught fish in its talons in a warm golden lightMonmouth County, New Jersey, East Coast, USAPhotograph captured with a Sony A1 camera paired with a Sony 600mm f/4 GM OSS lens and 1.4x extender, at 840mm, using following settings: 1/1000 s, f/5.6, ISO 2000Please contact: info@greggard.com for licensing informationwww.GregGard.comALL RIGHTS RESERVED