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New Ka Hale for Cardinal at WaimeaBeachHouse

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

Guarding the nest as it is being built.

Guarding the Nest – […]

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 […]

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 […]