Chaplin Bay

Black and white photograph of the waves washing up on Chaplin Bay, one of the smaller coves along the South Shore of Bermuda. The boundary between Warwick and Southampton parishes bisects this beach.

Morning over Castle Harbour

Early morning light in Castle Harbour, from Coney Island.

Ornamental ginger flowers. These remind me of brightly colour ballerinas dancing the Can-Can!

A Watery Morning

An abstracty watery scene along the shore at Spittal Pond.

Docks in Watercolour

A watercolour of yesterday's scene, though under early morning light.

Evening Light

Pretty light along the docks on Harrington Sound.

An old Bermuda house with a wooden balcony on Water Street in the Old Town of St George.

Chick-of-the-Village

Another of Bermuda's birds: The Chick-of-the-Village. If you don't see one you will probably most definitely have heard one calling out to itself by name. Its proper name is a White Eyed Vireo and it is believed that the birds in Bermuda are an endemic sub-species. Their wings are smaller than their North American counterparts.

Red Bird

In keeping with the birds in a poinciana theme, here is a cardinal, locally known simply as a Red Bird.

A Blue Bluebird

We have a resident population of Eastern Bluebirds. Their watery warbles (if that's how you could describe it) are beautiful to hear. This on is using a poincianca branch to get a good view of the worms.

Shadows

Daydreaming under dappled summer shadows...

Not a photograph of Bermuda today, but a watercolour painting of a wild canna lily.

Lionfish at the Aquarium (BAMZ)

A weird and wonderful looking fish! Although these are invasive fish that originated in the Pacific but have made their way to the Caribbean and are causing a real problem in the islands down there. In Bermuda they are luckily not yet plentiful, but studies are already underway to learn about their impact on our reefs and also to cull them. I'm grateful not to speak from my own experience, but I know that they pack a powerful blow with their venom.

Twinkling waters at Gravelly Bay

Sunrise Flash

A bright colourful sunrise this morning from the east end of Warwick Long Bay Beach. It's gradually getting to be sunrise a little later in the mornings, wake up call twenty minutes to six. The sun is also noticably rising (and setting) to the south now. I know this photo is rather overexposed but I thought it best showed the brightness of the new day.

Hibiscus

Hibiscuses are a common sight in Bermuda, in gardens and along the road side. But this one was interesting because half the individual flower was peachy and half was yellow!

Damselfly

The grass is teeming with wildlife if you just care to look...

Evening Splash

Someone taking advantage of the calm evening, jumping off of the public dock on Harrington Sound. The Aquarium in Flatts is in the background.

Spittal Pond Sunrise

An extra photograph today - the kiskadee was a bonus to make up for the gap a couple of days ago. This was the scene along the shoreline at Spittal Pond. I think probably one of the most beautiful spots to view the sunrise.

Kisss-ka-deeee!

The kiskadee showing off its yellow belly. Aside from the bright flashes of colour, its call is very distinctive, calling itself by name. It is actually sitting on a dead cedar which was killed in the 1940's by the cedar blight.

Evening Light on the Eastern Cliffs of Harrington Sound

Oops I missed a post. Sorry! After the lizard post I decided I could take a photograph of a kiskadee as a follow-up. But I didn't actually see one when I had my camera in hand. In the evening we went out boating in Harrington Sound under gorgeous evening light as shown here, and I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday. Hope you enjoy this one!

Lizard Babe

A baby Jamaican Anole that I saved from the clutches of my kitten's jaws! (Then willingly placed on a pretty hibiscus.)

These lizards are common sights in Bermuda, although they were introduced and form part of a long and faily silly chain: Fruit flies were a nuisance so the anole was introduced. But when a tiny cedar scale insect was introduced by mistake on imported Christmas trees and decimated the endemic Bermuda Cedar trees, no biologicial control could be established because of these lizards. So the yellow Kiskadee was introduced to take care of the lizards. Now these are the biggest problem - it turned out they didn't even like lizards that much but ate pretty much anything else.

Oh, and we still have fruit flies and the cedars sorted themselves out anyway with a resistant strain becoming dominant!

Hurricane Ike's Surge

A little bit of storm surge from Hurricane Ike, seen from Spittal Pond. Luckily the hurricane is far away from us. But the sound from the surge is impressive!

Bombshell!

Having fun out in Harrington Sound

Cooper's Island

Cooper's Island Nature Reserve

Bermuda's newest nature reserve.

Gravelly Bay - again!

I went to Gravelly Bay again this morning to look for a different sort of composition. I'll always have an excuse to come to this bay early for sunrise!

Gravelly Bay

Sunrise over Gravelly Bay, a beautiful little bay next to the sandy John Smith's on South Shore