Soon after I got back into photography in 2020, I had a magical encounter. I heard a thrumming.

It's mating season and the American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus) are frisky.

Least Terns (Sternula antillarum) nest on South Carolina beaches, just above the high tide line on flats of mixed shells and sand. Their nests are little more than a small depression and are especially sucesptible to predators and human disturbance. Despite their dimunitive size, Least Tearns are feisty. Today while walking the permiter of a protected nesting area I saw a stand-off in progress. A ghost crab attempted to charge a nesting tern. For about 10 minutes the crab cha