A male and female Red Crested Cardinal are building a new Ka Hale (home) for their ‘Ohana (family). This includes a new punana manu (birds nest) in a Kumu Nui (coconut palm tree). Building the New Ka Hale The Red Crested Cardinal is not actually a Cardinal. It is part of the Tanager family. The Read More…
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The Longest Migration and a dragonfly
The world’s longest migration was not on my mind as the day began. My goal was to conduct an early morning photo-shoot a the Kawaiʻele Waterbird Sanctuary a few miles west of my home in Waimea Kauai. However, I would learn that an unplanned subject of the photo-shoot would be a record holding migrator. Kauai Read More…
Goin Fish’n at Dawn
I decided to take a trip to the Kawaiʻele Waterbird Sanctuary at dawn. It is located a few miles west of the house. It is a a quiet place. It is a special place to me. As the sun begins its day on the Sanctuary the quiet is broken. A bugle calls Reveille at the Read More…